On Sunday 24 December 2006 00:32, Björn Mildh wrote:

> Using the torrent dropdown menues is somehow confusing. In the
> current setup any release candidates show up on top of stable release.
> When this i written 2.1.0rc2 show up before 2.1.0, this can confuse
> anybody not familiar with open source release conventions.
>
> In my opinion a better sollution would be to turn the menues up side
> down and let people first choose system, then available language and
> after that be presented the latest recomended release for that
> combination. For legacy releases a link to a list could be enough?
hmm, I agree with you, the final release should appear above the release 
candidats. Your other point, on reversing the process is interesting 
though... :)

> I also suggest an anouncement mailing list for torrents. The
> distribution project seems to use only one list for any subject and
> I'm really not interested in following all that discussion, I just
> want to know when the stuff I seed gets updated. For now I use the
> fall of numbers in connections to determine when it´s time to get new
> files.

There is an rss feed for all active torrents, furthermore  you may use rsync 
to sync the torrents dir to   your own server.

http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~mike/oo/bt.rss


Mike

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