torrents.gentoo.org has been down for a few months now, and there have been very few comments about it. Up until a few years ago, it was still quite useful, but I believe that we have sufficient bandwidth and mirror-coverage around the world that it's become a moot point.
If you have any complaints, objections, etc, please respond in this thread. Service: --------- torrents.gentoo.org Service termination date: ------------------------- Already (it's been broken a while) Functions: ----------- - .torrent file hosting - BitTorrent tracker - BitTorrent stats per .torrent files Handling of functions going forward: ------------------------------------ If we need torrents in future, we should use public trackers, as there is no further need to run our own BitTorrent tracker. The .torrent files themselves should live on our own mirrors, with GPG signatures to prove authenticity (we actually only need to sign the infohash value). The only thing we'd actually be losing is statistics on the .torrents, which were never that accurate to begin with - people gamed them more than once, and we didn't always catch them in time, if anything, what statistics we have would currently under-report by some degree, possibly as much as 50%. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
