[Asterisk-doc] I'm thinking that FTP makes more sense for Volume One than CVS does

[jim at digitalchemy.ca]

I guess since Asterisk is no longer beta, the distribution mechanisms need to be 
updated to take into account a new breed of user.

Folks will be looking at Asterisk now who have not done so in the past because of 
it's beta status. Some of these people will not be interested in learning CVS, and will 
use FTP, regardless of whether that's the best solution technically.

If Asterisk 1.0 becomes as popular as we all know it will, the ever increasing volume 
of downloads will also put an enormous burden on Asterisk.org's FTP server. 
Obviously, sharing the load amongst several mirrors will quickly become very 
attractive. 

Probably the distribution strategy for 1.0 will need to be different from the method 
popular with the  development community.

Cheers,

Jim.

On 7 Oct 2004 at 16:10, Darryl Ross wrote:

> jim at digitalchemy.ca wrote:
> > On 7 Oct 2004 at 15:41, Darryl Ross wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> >>Perhaps provide a reference to
> >>http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk-mirrors so that people can download it
> >>directly from one of the mirrors.
> > 
> > That's a good idea.
> 
> The only problem is that all of the mirrors seem to be layed out slightly differently, and some 
> of them don't have a full copy of Digium's FTP server (including mine: mirror.afoyi.com).
> 
> It would be much easier to mirror if Digium supported rsync... I might send Mark an email about 
> that.
> 
> Not sure the best way to fix that one. Perhaps if we could get Mark to support some "official" 
> mirrors, which are in the A records for ftp.digium.com.
> 
> Cheers
> Darryl
> 
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> 
> Darryl Ross
> Senior Network Engineer
> OEG Australia
> Email: darryl at oeg.com.au
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> 
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>      do it" slogan, you have to give someone a swiss army chainsaw ...
> 


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