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thus nate spake: | Yves Bellefeuille wrote: |> If I remember correctly, when version 5.3 was released, about 95% was |> made available by BitTorrent before the official release date, so that |> the entire file would be available as soon as possible after the |> release. |> |> Could the same be done this time? | | Could someone describe to me what the rush is? I mean what drives | the need that you need to have it _right now_ ?
That's exactly *not* the point.
I have to confess that I mailed (to a moderated list) exactly the same question to centos-mirror-announce yesterday.
Because...
| Me I always like | to wait at least a week or two to see if others run into issues, | and wait for the mirrors to become less clogged.
...this is exactly what the torrents would do: Take load off of the mirrors :)
It's not about 'having it here first'. I really appreciate to release ``when it's ready'' instead of a given, maybe anounced point in time. ;)
| nate
Timo