On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:32:01PM -0600, Andrew Ziem wrote: > John McCreesh wrote: > >On Tue, March 25, 2008 13:44, Andrew Ziem wrote: > >[snip] > > > >>Is this draft policy acceptable? > >>http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/PolicyMirrorLinking > >> > >>Otherwise, I think we soon may see direct links to 2.4.0 on places like > >>Digg. > >> > > > >Andrew, many thanks for taking the lead on this. I agree it needs to be > >done, but unfortunately we can't force people to keep quiet :-( > > > >I've added a version 2 to the wiki, strengthening the 'please do not > >damage the community' message. Hopefully if we appeal to people's better > >nature and explain the damage they could cause then they will be more > >willing to comply... > > > What about people who host OOo downloads including P2P?
For P2P there is basically the same "problem", since there are no p2p (bittorrent) downloads until the files hit the utwente mirror where the torrents are generated (and that mirror is part of the regular OOo mirror network). Apart from that there is no "load" problem for bittorrent, once there is the torrent available you can use it without bringing it down. > Majorgeeks.com > replied to my email saying OOo's concern is just bandwidth, but > Majorgeeks has their own mirrors. What about press releases, marketing, > etc? Are these concerns too? I believe they are, but they are not > clearly stated. It is not only about mirrors - it is about the announcement itself. German marketing did a tough job to get the major news sites not to post their own announcements, but to wait until the official announcement is done by the project. If one newssite shoots ahead, the others are "forced" to make the announcement as well, otherwise they'll get the "bah, old news" flag... It is more about a release than being able to download it. The webpages need to be updated, the download-pages must be uploaded, etc. While some sites link to their own mirror, many users will just hear "hey, version x is released" from somewhere and when they look at the site they don't see any trace and the complain at the mailinglists or IRC That is for the "don't announce early" part. As to only linking to our downloadpage or linking to own mirrors: I don't really care. While I'd prefer BitTorrent links, that is not really a concern for me. But if they don't run their own mirror, they definitely should not link directly to a server (linking the torrents directly is fine, since there is only one [1]) ciao Christian [1] Technically there are multiple trackers, but since those communicate with each other it behaves as one single tracker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
