> Objet : Re: Microsoft Censors OpenOffice Download Links > Not to speak for them, but I suspect they would point out the fact > that we there are over 100 Apache projects, and they all seem to do > fine with distribution via the mirrors. > > Personally, I'd wonder where this rates with us in terms of priority. > Compare to, say, forum stability improvements, code signing for our > installers, and further buildbot coverage, where do torrents rate?
Of course it's not a priority. But think about the mechanism of torrent: once it's initiated, it spreads by itself without any input needed. I'm not sure we need powerful resources for the seeds, we can even limit the number of uploads I guess. And then let the torrent spread among users. A forum was not in the field of the ASF scope. The AOO forum is still doing and rather well, there is a lot of cooperation and feedback when information is forwarded from on side to the other. So why not make a torrent a first for ASF? Please remember that you're handling an office suite, it's not a niche program, it's something that is heavily popular, you tell it yourself when you inform the list about the millions downloads. Ubuntu offers torrents for example. If ASF does not want to do new things because no other ASF project has even tried, then I'm rather worried about the future. Especially when on the other side LibreOffice has a so efficient team, very good at marketing their project. Hagar Une messagerie gratuite, garantie à vie et des services en plus, ça vous tente ? Je crée ma boîte mail www.laposte.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
