They have two mechanisms for snapshots and so on... I submitted requests for access to these about a year ago and occasionally get an update.
Most recently: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new queueing mechanism for beta offerings is being developed and is planned for rollout in the next month. We have taken the data from this Support Request and stored it into an intermediary location for import into the new beta offering queue mechanism when it is made live. We plan on including your project in the beta offering. Once the list is made live, additional information will be made available to you, linked to from your My SF.net page. This information will include the expected timeframe along with any other information we have available to provide at that time. As no further updates will be made to this ticket, it is now being closed. Keep an eye on your My SF.net page for further information on the beta offerings this coming month. Thank you, SourceForge.net Support ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As far as I can see they have not yet rolled this out. So if they are throttling downloads, it is either incompetent or unhelpful. nongnu.savannah.org anyone? We absolutely must not serve from our own server on releasing 0.7. And arguably not on getting slashdotted either (which is a relatively regular occurrence!). On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:57:37AM +0100, Ian Clarke wrote: > > On 23 Oct 2005, at 18:38, m0rtal frei wrote: > > >Hello Ian, > > > >Sunday, October 23, 2005, 4:47:19 PM, you wrote: > > > > > >>Yes, this is because sourceforge now deliberately slow down the > >>download of large files from their web servers. We need to address > >>this but haven't got around to it yet. > >>Apologies for the inconvenience, > > > >You can use torrent, for example :) > > The problem isn't lack of available bandwidth, Sourceforge has > plenty, it is that they deliberately slow down downloads from their > web servers as they want people to use their file release system. > > We need to investigate whether we can use this in an automated way, > if not, we can probably just distribute from our own server for the > time being. > > Ian. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20051025/b1f56db8/attachment.pgp>
