On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Charlie Brady wrote:
Just syncing slowly is what I've heard.
I hope that consideration will be given in future releases to sync the SRPMS before the binaries, do avoid this time skew.
Let's see -- Perhaps one in 200 people USING CentOS binaries, use CentOS SRPMs. Next look at the relentless railing and carping about 'delays' and 'lateness'. Then look at the negligible (or at least minimal) responses to repeated requests for donation of additional resources to the project.
SRPMs first is not likely a course likely to serve the largest number first, nor cut the pain of having to listen to the the larger source of thankless, thoughtless whimpering, I'd say
A person wanting earlier SRPM access probably has to put up resources to facilitate such a path (I am aware of Shad Lord's recent mirror offer). More bandwidth at the needed points [and avoiding fiber cuts] is harder to donate, sadly.
Mirror flap seems to still be a problem as well, probably due to some mirrors not syncing against sub-masters properly, but rather trying to cross-sync, and so confusing inferior unofficial sub-sub-mirrors that have beenm inprovidently editted in (based on main IRC channel diagnosis)
I would be thrilled to have a simultaneous coordinated release, but the 'leak' of 'patched' torrent instances, and at least two mirrors opening the full ISO set before the coordinated bit flip date and time, leave rather a bad outlook to me as to the ability to make things better through such an 'inverted as to demand' approach
My $0.02 .... I'd love to be shown a path to avoid the problems on the 5.3 roll-out
-- Russ herrold