On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Jeff Schroeder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Gabriel Burt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey, >> >> We (the Banshee maintainers) are interested in hosting our Banshee >> releases on ftp.gnome.org. They are currently hosted on our website, >> eg <http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/stable/2.0.0/>. I wanted to >> ask here because it could have non-negligible disk space and bandwidth >> implications because of our user-focused builds (.msi, .dmg installer, >> and potentially a Linux bundle soon). >> >> We do about 12 releases a year, currently at around 74 MB per release >> - but would be around 120 MB if we add a Linux bundle. So per year, >> could be somewhere around 1440 MB. We have 968 MB of existing release >> files we'd probably want to migrate as well (assuming that's >> normal/ok). >> >> In terms of bandwidth, the user-focused builds are my concern. Since >> Feb, our alpha releases of Banshee on Windows have been downloaded by >> 20k IPs, and our beta builds for OS X by 4k users, and there's >> potential for one or both of these to get substantially more popular. >> >> Given all that, would it be OK for us to move to hosting our releases >> on ftp.gnome.org? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Gabriel > > Hi Gabriel, > > ftp.gnome.org isn't _actually_ hosted by gnome but by some really > friendly swedes. I've spoken with Stric, our contact for ftp.gnome.org > and he has no problem with what you propose. They have about 20Tb of > free disk space and their network pipe is something else. Check this > out for reference: > http://www.acc.umu.se/technical/statistics/ftp/monitordata/index.html.en > > How exactly do you cut a new release now? Do you just upload them to > your servers and shoot out an email or something? I looked you up in > mango and you've got ftp upload privileges so you should be able to do > what you need from master.gnome.org.
Wow! If we manage to make a non-negligible dent in that, we'll be doing something right. In terms of our release, we use `make dist` for our tarballs, and have various scripts that produce our bundles/installers, then these get scp'd to our server. I've used ftp.gnome.org for pdfmod before, so I don't think I'll have any trouble adapting our process. Here's our checklist: http://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee/tree/extras/README.releasing Thanks, Gabriel _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
