Hi, On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM, debatem1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We're making a Linux distro, and in addition to your SCM services > we're going to need a place to host the .iso- any chance that we could > do both here? Thanks for your time.
I have been thinking about some kind of binary dist/tarballs area for gitorious, nothing concrete yet however. The two biggest issues/questions I have (as I mull this over in my head) is a) bandwidth and b) uploading. a) bandwidth is usually more expensive than diskspace. Thankfully git is very space efficient (and thus bandwidth efficient), ISO files less so. Maybe bittorrent is the answer here? That would allow other people to contribute space and bandwidth on a ad-hoc basis. b) uploading a ~700meg image through HTTP sucks, both for the client and the webserver [software] receiving the data. Since we already to public-key auth on gitorious, allowing ssh uploads to constrained area wouldn't be to hard (in fact, it sounds exactly like the description of a previous job I had a few years back)... Funny enough, I got an email from a guy working within the biology research field wanting somewhere to store his (fairly large) databases earlier today. But yours and his projects sounds like a good cause, what's the smallest thing (to start with) we could build that would suit your needs? Cheers, JS --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gitorious" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gitorious?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
