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Sent from my iPhone On Apr 26, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Gabriel Burt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
