2012/9/20 Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Raphael Bircher <[email protected]> > wrote: > > But I could ask my brother if he is willing to setup a torrent tracker > > for us. He was working on the torrent at the old OOo project. > > > > I'm willing to host a seeding peer > > Wouldn´t this impact on the tracking of downloads? I mean... the > SourceForge download stats will no longer be the true download count. > How would Apache track torrent downloads and add the numbers to the > SF.net stats?. > > I think this is a valid concern... > > Plus, torrents are good to save on bandwidth, but lack of bandwidth > with SF.net´s network of world-wide mirrors doesn´t seem to be the > case here. So, again, why the need for a torrent?. "because it´s cool" > doesn´t hold, IMHO... >
Agree. IMO, we can help our users a lot more by pointing them to an opensource, multi-platform download manager like uGet, downthemall! firefox extension and others. Regards Ricardo
