On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 21:08 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 07:12:56 AM Paul Howarth wrote: > > I propose to retire bittorrent (the original python client) for the > > reasons outlined below. If anyone's interested in taking it over > > instead, please apply on the package database and I'll transfer > > ownership. Think carefully before you act though! > > > > Dead Upstream: > > ============== > > Well, not actually dead but upstream has gone closed-source as of > > version 6 so it's effectively dead. > > we use it as the official torrent server for torrent.fedoraproject.org we have > not found any other servers that work totally for us. if we are getting rid > of it we should also look as using something else for the torrents we provide. > > A nice thing to have is something that we can use with ipv6 and ipv4, the > server that torrent.fp.o is on has both > Heck, I'd be willing to accept ANY bittorrent server that can be both tracker and primary seed and doesn't require a special apache module to do it. The biggest virtue of the old bittorrent client is that it is simple, stand alone and while not fancy, it is straightforward to understand. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
