[CentOS-devel] Opening of the mirrors?

[Jeff Johnson]

On Jul 10, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:

> Phil Schaffner wrote:
>> Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote on 07/10/2011 07:27 AM:
>>> Hi.
>>> 
>>> Can someone confirm that ISO's are in their final form and ready for
>>> download / torrent seeding?
>>> 
>>> I saw announcement on @Centos tweeter account and I see previously
>>> locked mirror close to me is know open, but I do not see any md5sum or
>>> sha1sum files.
>> 
>> Some last-minute issues are being worked.  Please just wait for the 
>> official announcement.
>> 
>> Phil
> 
> So should I stop the torrent? It looks like catastrophe. Only my torrent 
> client has 200 leechers. And it shows ~1200 leechers all together. At 
> least 55 people already downloaded it and are now seeding.
> 
> Mirrors should not have been opened up.
> 

The issue of early releasing hs been around since forever.

The issue is mostly the logistics of moving images to mirrors.
That takes time and patience.

There *IS* a rather harsh MANDATORY solution possible:

	Deliberately remove the first 20K or so of all ISO's,
	rendering the ISO's useless.

	Go about preparing the release.

	When "released", re-add the first 20K of the ISO's,
	and add a suggestion that mirrors re-sync.

At some point the noise from deliberately chosen damage (by removing
the 1st 20K of images) is less than the confusion of having multiple
copies of partially released/altered smeared out all over the WWW.

hth

73 de Jeff