Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
This morning the en-Forum received the following query http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55992 To save you looking it up, the User asked if there would be a torrent connection for AOO 3.4.x, as there had been for OOo 3.3 and earlier. -- Rory O'Farrell
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
Hi Rory Am 30.08.12 12:57, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: > This morning the en-Forum received the following query > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55992 > > To save you looking it up, the User asked if there would be a torrent > connection for AOO 3.4.x, as there had been for OOo 3.3 and earlier. At the Moment no. But it's not the first request for torrent. Torrent would be also interesting for unofficial Developer builds, to distribute the load a bit on defferent computer. The problem is: at the Moment we have no Torrent Tracker. But I could ask my brother if he is willing to setup a torrent tracker for us. He was working on the torrent at the old OOo project. I'm willing to host a seeding peer Greetings Raphael
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:10:37 +0200 Raphael Bircher wrote: > Hi Rory > > Am 30.08.12 12:57, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: > > This morning the en-Forum received the following query > > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55992 > > > > To save you looking it up, the User asked if there would be a torrent > > connection for AOO 3.4.x, as there had been for OOo 3.3 and earlier. > At the Moment no. But it's not the first request for torrent. Torrent > would be also interesting for unofficial Developer builds, to distribute > the load a bit on defferent computer. The problem is: at the Moment we > have no Torrent Tracker. > > But I could ask my brother if he is willing to setup a torrent tracker > for us. He was working on the torrent at the old OOo project. > > I'm willing to host a seeding peer > > Greetings Raphael > > Thank you, Raphael. I'll reply to the query that torrent downloads are under consideration and that I will post further information when/if available. -- Rory O'Farrell
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
On 8/30/2012 08:09, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:10:37 +0200 Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi Rory Am 30.08.12 12:57, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: This morning the en-Forum received the following query http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55992 To save you looking it up, the User asked if there would be a torrent connection for AOO 3.4.x, as there had been for OOo 3.3 and earlier. At the Moment no. But it's not the first request for torrent. Torrent would be also interesting for unofficial Developer builds, to distribute the load a bit on defferent computer. The problem is: at the Moment we have no Torrent Tracker. But I could ask my brother if he is willing to setup a torrent tracker for us. He was working on the torrent at the old OOo project. I'm willing to host a seeding peer Greetings Raphael Thank you, Raphael. I'll reply to the query that torrent downloads are under consideration and that I will post further information when/if available. Hi, Rory, Raphael, The technical side is no problem: anybody can distribute AOO, by any means from torrent to carrier pigeon. The problem is, do we put a link on the AOO site? The PMC is going to want to get involved with that. Good luck. /tj/
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
On Aug 30, 2012, at 12:57 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > This morning the en-Forum received the following query > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55992 > > To save you looking it up, the User asked if there would be a torrent > connection for AOO 3.4.x, as there had been for OOo 3.3 and earlier. > I don't think there is anything in principle that prevents this. We just need a volunteer to set it up. Some companies (like my employer) have policies that forbid running P2P file sharing services, so I can't do this directly. -Rob > -- > Rory O'Farrell
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
Hi. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Raphael Bircher wrote: > Hi Rory > > Am 30.08.12 12:57, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: >> This morning the en-Forum received the following query >> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55992 >> >> To save you looking it up, the User asked if there would be a torrent >> connection for AOO 3.4.x, as there had been for OOo 3.3 and earlier. > At the Moment no. But it's not the first request for torrent. Torrent > would be also interesting for unofficial Developer builds, to distribute > the load a bit on defferent computer. The problem is: at the Moment we > have no Torrent Tracker. Yeah! > But I could ask my brother if he is willing to setup a torrent tracker > for us. He was working on the torrent at the old OOo project. > > I'm willing to host a seeding peer Me too. I can help create torrent tracker, but first remember how do. Albino
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
Has anyone asked/is anyone asking Infra about a torrent tracker? On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Albino B Neto wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Raphael Bircher wrote: >> Hi Rory >> >> Am 30.08.12 12:57, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: >>> This morning the en-Forum received the following query >>> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55992 >>> >>> To save you looking it up, the User asked if there would be a torrent >>> connection for AOO 3.4.x, as there had been for OOo 3.3 and earlier. >> At the Moment no. But it's not the first request for torrent. Torrent >> would be also interesting for unofficial Developer builds, to distribute >> the load a bit on defferent computer. The problem is: at the Moment we >> have no Torrent Tracker. > > Yeah! > >> But I could ask my brother if he is willing to setup a torrent tracker >> for us. He was working on the torrent at the old OOo project. >> >> I'm willing to host a seeding peer > > Me too. > > I can help create torrent tracker, but first remember how do. > > Albino
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
I asked infra yesterday - no ack yet... On 9/20/2012 5:26 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: Has anyone asked/is anyone asking Infra about a torrent tracker? On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Albino B Neto wrote: Hi. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi Rory Am 30.08.12 12:57, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: This morning the en-Forum received the following query http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55992 To save you looking it up, the User asked if there would be a torrent connection for AOO 3.4.x, as there had been for OOo 3.3 and earlier. At the Moment no. But it's not the first request for torrent. Torrent would be also interesting for unofficial Developer builds, to distribute the load a bit on defferent computer. The problem is: at the Moment we have no Torrent Tracker. Yeah! But I could ask my brother if he is willing to setup a torrent tracker for us. He was working on the torrent at the old OOo project. I'm willing to host a seeding peer Me too. I can help create torrent tracker, but first remember how do. Albino
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Raphael Bircher wrote: > But I could ask my brother if he is willing to setup a torrent tracker > for us. He was working on the torrent at the old OOo project. > > I'm willing to host a seeding peer Wouldn´t this impact on the tracking of downloads? I mean... the SourceForge download stats will no longer be the true download count. How would Apache track torrent downloads and add the numbers to the SF.net stats?. I think this is a valid concern... Plus, torrents are good to save on bandwidth, but lack of bandwidth with SF.net´s network of world-wide mirrors doesn´t seem to be the case here. So, again, why the need for a torrent?. "because it´s cool" doesn´t hold, IMHO... FC
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
It's more than cool. A proper torrent client is a step up from an ordinary download manager in that it's tolerant of both poor connections and instances of blocked paths to a specific connection. It doesn't resume interrupted downloads as much as handle downloads in whatever quantities it can get. I have a cable modem in a Washington DC area suburb, and yet my connection's sufficiently flaky that torrenting works better than direct-downloading, even with a download manager. I assume a lot of the world isn't as well-connected as me. On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Raphael Bircher wrote: >> But I could ask my brother if he is willing to setup a torrent tracker >> for us. He was working on the torrent at the old OOo project. >> >> I'm willing to host a seeding peer > > Wouldn´t this impact on the tracking of downloads? I mean... the > SourceForge download stats will no longer be the true download count. > How would Apache track torrent downloads and add the numbers to the > SF.net stats?. > > I think this is a valid concern... > > Plus, torrents are good to save on bandwidth, but lack of bandwidth > with SF.net´s network of world-wide mirrors doesn´t seem to be the > case here. So, again, why the need for a torrent?. "because it´s cool" > doesn´t hold, IMHO... > FC
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
2012/9/20 Fernando Cassia > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Raphael Bircher > wrote: > > But I could ask my brother if he is willing to setup a torrent tracker > > for us. He was working on the torrent at the old OOo project. > > > > I'm willing to host a seeding peer > > Wouldn´t this impact on the tracking of downloads? I mean... the > SourceForge download stats will no longer be the true download count. > How would Apache track torrent downloads and add the numbers to the > SF.net stats?. > > I think this is a valid concern... > > Plus, torrents are good to save on bandwidth, but lack of bandwidth > with SF.net´s network of world-wide mirrors doesn´t seem to be the > case here. So, again, why the need for a torrent?. "because it´s cool" > doesn´t hold, IMHO... > Agree. IMO, we can help our users a lot more by pointing them to an opensource, multi-platform download manager like uGet, downthemall! firefox extension and others. Regards Ricardo
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Donald Whytock wrote: > Has anyone asked/is anyone asking Infra about a torrent tracker? > I doubt they would set one up just for us. And most other Apache projects have much smaller distributions, so I don't think there is a wider Apache need for this. Could we just use a public tracker, like PublicBitTorrent? And host the .torrent files on our website, linked to from the download page (or a page under it)? -Rob > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Albino B Neto wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Raphael Bircher wrote: >>> Hi Rory >>> >>> Am 30.08.12 12:57, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: This morning the en-Forum received the following query http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55992 To save you looking it up, the User asked if there would be a torrent connection for AOO 3.4.x, as there had been for OOo 3.3 and earlier. >>> At the Moment no. But it's not the first request for torrent. Torrent >>> would be also interesting for unofficial Developer builds, to distribute >>> the load a bit on defferent computer. The problem is: at the Moment we >>> have no Torrent Tracker. >> >> Yeah! >> >>> But I could ask my brother if he is willing to setup a torrent tracker >>> for us. He was working on the torrent at the old OOo project. >>> >>> I'm willing to host a seeding peer >> >> Me too. >> >> I can help create torrent tracker, but first remember how do. >> >> Albino
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
Hi. On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > I doubt they would set one up just for us. And most other Apache > projects have much smaller distributions, so I don't think there is a > wider Apache need for this. I also think. > Could we just use a public tracker, like PublicBitTorrent? And host > the .torrent files on our website, linked to from the download page > (or a page under it)? Yeah! Could was good idea. Maybe so in principle can use. Other public trakcer: http://www.mininova.org/ - Has know. http://www.torentcrestin.net/ Albino
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
Hi A brief knowledge about P2P (Peer-to-Peer) The principial goal is to share anything you want. How do? You create a TORRENT file on your computer and upload it to a public or private tracker, so it will just stay and just TORRENT file will be downloaded to your computer / server. I hope I helped. Albino
Re: Torrent connection for AOo 3.4.x download
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Raphael Bircher > wrote: > > But I could ask my brother if he is willing to setup a torrent tracker > > for us. He was working on the torrent at the old OOo project. > > > > I'm willing to host a seeding peer > > Wouldn´t this impact on the tracking of downloads? I mean... the > SourceForge download stats will no longer be the true download count. > How would Apache track torrent downloads and add the numbers to the > SF.net stats?. > > I think this is a valid concern... > It depends on the infrastructure you use to serve torrents. Most of them provide the total number of downloads. The Apache OpenOffice download counter uses SF APIs, it should just add those to the total. Roberto > > Plus, torrents are good to save on bandwidth, but lack of bandwidth > with SF.net´s network of world-wide mirrors doesn´t seem to be the > case here. So, again, why the need for a torrent?. "because it´s cool" > doesn´t hold, IMHO... > FC > -- This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you.