On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 11:30, Joe Doss <joe at solidadmin.com> wrote: > > Fedora builds off of Koji are not held captive, so why should they be > for CentOS? We can download Fedora builds without issue off the composes Fedora builds are allowed by a happy accident that the number of people who download packages are normally less than that the various apps that make up koji can handle. We in Fedora have had to limit or turn off access at times when people do download too much. The issue is that CentOS usage space is 100x that of Fedora, and even if 0.1% of CentOS users wanted to download directly from koji, that would be 100x what Fedora koji sees from outside users. If we in Fedora saw that kind of size jump we would have to severely limit access to the packages also to only approved packagers or some other method. I understand your reasoning for the rest of the email, and it is asking for CentOS to be a different project than it is. I don't think the rest of your conversation is based on the one item above, but if it were.. it needed to be corrected. -- Stephen J Smoogen.