[SAC] Re: [OSGeo] #458: revive geo-torrents?

[OSGeo]

#458: revive geo-torrents?
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  Reporter:  hamish  |       Owner:  sac at lists.osgeo.org       
      Type:  task    |      Status:  new                       
  Priority:  normal  |   Component:  SAC                       
Resolution:          |    Keywords:  geodata, livedvd, torrents
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Comment (by hamish):

 Replying to [comment:1 wildintellect]:
 > Both would work well on a headless server and can handle
 > auto torrenting from a watched folder. Meaning the rules
 > could be that if it's in the torrent folder it will be seeded,
 > remove it from said folder to stop seeding. Not sure if
 > symlinks work on that.

 mmm, it is more work to admin but I more favor an explicit approach to
 distribution. makes it harder to mess up really really badly.


 > The other big decision would be what to cap the upload rate at.

 why have a cap at all? AFAIK bandwidth is "not really a problem" for the
 SDSC.


 > Side notes:
 > rtorrent does included a tracker, but we might all consider
 > hosting a mirror of the OpenTracker project - they provide
 > hardware if we have space(or something like that)

 [we can (and do) use the opentracker already which is grand; the less
 stuff we have to admin the better]

 as for hosting a mirror of it... um, I'm not really sure what else is
 tracked by that site (AFAICT from their website neither do/can they) but
 the U.S. in general and California in particular are perhaps not the legal
 jurisdictions you want to test that in. The state is pretty much bankrupt
 and Hollywood does bring a few tax dollars I imagine. That, and our hosts
 might get grumpy about all the OT traffic.

 > transmission has an optional web management interface

 is that much of a plus over command line reports? I guess it would be a
 bit like sitestats apache log viewers to show you what's going on? If so,
 could be an interesting feature. But if it's just a webform crutch for
 people who are afraid of the command line I don't see much gain.


 obviously we don't want this abused by 3rd parties in any way, so the more
 ways we can find to lock it down the better :)



 Hamish

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