On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 11:58 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le dimanche 10 juin 2007 à 15:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > Le dimanche 10 juin 2007 à 08:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > > > > > >> Having a web interface would allow anyone to select the package groups > > >> and individual packages and get a ISO image for download. I posted to > > >> fedora-infrastructure list before but we need a web app before talking > > >> about deploying it. > > > > > > Yay for killing bandwidth > > > > Ignoring the obvious end user benefits? > > There are no obvious end-user benefits if an infrastructure that could > handle lots of users melts under a few doing iso spins (I suppose you > want dvd images in there too right?) I'm going to say something here which I'm sure will cause a bit of a fit but I'll say it anyway. The bandwidth and server costs of running a service like this would be huge. What has been discussed (briefly and without much detail is this) 1. produce an open source tool to produce web-based respins of fedora (and related) distros. 2. release this tool so anyone could set up their own site to make respinds 3. setup a site so people can respin fedora with updates or with a different set of packages. There won't be much guarantee that the distro will work perfectly but its package set should produce dependency closure. 4. charge a fee for access to the site we run. That would help us offset the costs and constrain the set of users a bit. That's what has been discussed and only a little bit. Right now the important part is making a program work to do this, everything after that is extra. let the angst and flames begin. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
