On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 2:03 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:

> So, Fedora 29 Beta is out the door and mostly that went very smoothly as
> always. With one exception: torrents.
>
> Right now we are (were) using the last opensource version of
> 'bittorrent' python client to seed our torrents. However, I noticed
> yesterday that it is no longer working. It's not just one bug, but a
> number of them judging by the different tracebacks it's spewing.
>
> As a stopgap to get Beta happy I installed and ran rtorrent on torrent01
> in a tmux session to seed our beta torrents, but thats a curses app
> thats not automateable.
>
> So, we really need to figure a way forward here.
>
> 1. Get permission from Council/FESCo to drop torrents (To make that case
> we need to show some graphs that not many people are using torrents
> anymore).
>
> 2. Move our torrents to amazon cloudfront. This should be doable, but
> means we are using a non free service so it would make me sad.
>
> 3. Try and find a open source seeding app that is manageable from
> ansible/config files. (Good luck, they are all old, or gui only, etc).
>
I really prefer this but 4 can be a temporary fix.

>
> 4. Just use rtorrent in tmux to seed everything and have to manually
> start/stop it when you add/remove any.
>
This could be a temp fix.

>
> 5. Some other clever idea someone has.
>
> We can discuss this in meeting tomorrow, but I figured I would start a
> thread here too.
>
> kevin
>
>
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