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