Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-27 Thread Ryan Davis
On Aug 26, 2009, at 21:08 , Nick Quaranto wrote: Just a note here: I haven't added support for the legacy indexes for in Gemcutter. Since you need at least RubyGems 1.3.3 to use the gem plugins, I figured supporting the legacy ones shouldn't be a priority as the project started. Currently

Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-26 Thread John Barnette
Nick, On Aug 26, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Nick Quaranto wrote: 1) Redirect gems.rubyforge.org to gemcutter.org for gem serving. (all gems are currently mirrored from RubyForge and are ready for consumption) RubyForge currently has a pretty good mirror system for supporting Gem downloads. I

Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-26 Thread Chad Woolley
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Nick Quaranton...@quaran.to wrote: Please note I'm not suggesting that all of these happen *this instant*, I just want to open up discussion about making this happen and what would be involved. Your thoughts and comments would be appreciated. To be honest, this

Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-26 Thread Luis Lavena
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Ryan Davisryand-r...@zenspider.com wrote: On Aug 26, 2009, at 14:57 , John Barnette wrote: Nick, On Aug 26, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Nick Quaranto wrote: 1) Redirect gems.rubyforge.org to gemcutter.org for gem serving. (all gems are currently mirrored from

Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-26 Thread Nick Quaranto
Chad, I'll admit, the website as it is right now sucks, this is not a finished project yet. There's a full fledged redesign in progress that is being pushed out to: http://staging.gemcutter.org Check out the preview post here too:

Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-26 Thread Luis Lavena
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Nick Quaranton...@quaran.to wrote: I'll take a look into CloudFront, I just haven't yet since the need hasn't come up. My main concern is keeping the gap between publishing a gem and being able to install it low. CloudFront is a transparent CDN, you only need

Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-26 Thread Ryan Davis
On Aug 26, 2009, at 17:16 , Luis Lavena wrote: (possibly) even better, I'm pretty sure we could get Tom convinced that gemcutter is a good idea and we should migrate rubyforge to it. The thing is that RubyForge is more than just gems. I wasn't suggesting that gemcutter take over

Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-26 Thread Tom Copeland
On Aug 26, 2009, at 5:57 PM, John Barnette wrote: Nick, On Aug 26, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Nick Quaranto wrote: 1) Redirect gems.rubyforge.org to gemcutter.org for gem serving. (all gems are currently mirrored from RubyForge and are ready for consumption) RubyForge currently has a pretty good

Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-26 Thread Tom Copeland
On Aug 26, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Nick Quaranto wrote: As for the costs, I'd like to approach a non-profit organization such as RubyCentral to help deal with them. I originally sent an email out to them first about supporting the project a few weeks ago, but I haven't heard anything back. I'm

Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-26 Thread Tom Copeland
On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:22 PM, Tom Copeland wrote: On Aug 26, 2009, at 5:57 PM, John Barnette wrote: Nick, On Aug 26, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Nick Quaranto wrote: 1) Redirect gems.rubyforge.org to gemcutter.org for gem serving. (all gems are currently mirrored from RubyForge and are ready for

Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-26 Thread Nick Quaranto
So I'm trying out: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html 14mb/day, is less than 1GB a month. For S3 that's less than $1/month just for data transfer out, and a little more with CloudFront. It doesn't seem like this would be a problem unless if we were in the range of terabytes/month. As

Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-26 Thread Nick Quaranto
Just a note here: I haven't added support for the legacy indexes for in Gemcutter. Since you need at least RubyGems 1.3.3 to use the gem plugins, I figured supporting the legacy ones shouldn't be a priority as the project started. Currently I'm only generating and serving up the modern indexes

Re: [Rubygems-developers] Gemcutter

2009-08-26 Thread Tom Copeland
On Aug 27, 2009, at 12:08 AM, Nick Quaranto wrote: Just a note here: I haven't added support for the legacy indexes for in Gemcutter. Since you need at least RubyGems 1.3.3 to use the gem plugins, I figured supporting the legacy ones shouldn't be a priority as the project started.