John, (and Edipo),
It's nice hearing from you. As you may remember, we had a Torrent
service running here at Eclipse.org, and it integrated nicely with
our website downloads (ie, http, ftp and torrent links all had the
same real estate on the downloads pages).
After a few years, I had observed that the number of people using
BitTorrent for Eclipse downloads had decreased to only a handful.
http downloads are simply "fast enough" for most people, and with
fewer users, torrent downloads were actually much slower. So I shut
the server off.
Using an external service such as terasaur.org would be nice, and I
am very mindful of the bandwidth our mirrors must deploy to support
all the OSS communities, but the act of uploading files then trying
to integrate external torrent links into eclipse.org just doesn't
seem like it's worth it. This is likely nothing some scripting
couldn't fix, but again, many fish, and one heck of a big pond.
I do reserve the right to change my mind at any time, however,
especially around release time :-) Thanks for your offer to help,
and thank you (and iBiblio) for your continued support.
Denis
On 04/24/2013 09:11 PM, John Reuning
wrote:
In case there are problems or unhappiness among the
eclipse project team with the current torrent setup, I'd like to
offer terasaur.org.
This is an ibiblio [1] project, which provides both tracking and
seeding of torrents. You can upload torrent data to our server,
and we'll seed it. There's also basic analytics. For example,
Thanks,
-John
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Edipo
Crispim <edipo.crispim@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello,
I have a vps from dremhost, that i installed a
bittorrent client.
I use this client for legal torrents, such as ubuntu
images (12.04LTS and 12.10) and eclipse packages (Juno
SR1).
Most of this file have ratios above 200:
- Ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386.iso - 433
- Eclipse-jee-juno-SR1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz -
497
So i wanted to try Juno SR2 and add it to my
bittorrent client, but i did not found the torrent
files.
Will you continue to distribute by torrent?
If so, i would like to know where can i find the
files.
Thanks,
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