Re: hosting Banshee releases on gnome.org

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Jeff Schroeder
<jeffschroeder computer org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> We (the Banshee maintainers) are interested in hosting our Banshee
>> releases on ftp.gnome.org.  They are currently hosted on our website,
>> eg <http://download.banshee.fm/banshee/stable/2.0.0/>.  I wanted to
>> ask here because it could have non-negligible disk space and bandwidth
>> implications because of our user-focused builds (.msi, .dmg installer,
>> and potentially a Linux bundle soon).
>>
>> We do about 12 releases a year, currently at around 74 MB per release
>> - but would be around 120 MB if we add a Linux bundle.  So per year,
>> could be somewhere around 1440 MB.  We have 968 MB of existing release
>> files we'd probably want to migrate as well (assuming that's
>> normal/ok).
>>
>> In terms of bandwidth, the user-focused builds are my concern.  Since
>> Feb, our alpha releases of Banshee on Windows have been downloaded by
>> 20k IPs, and our beta builds for OS X by 4k users, and there's
>> potential for one or both of these to get substantially more popular.
>>
>> Given all that, would it be OK for us to move to hosting our releases
>> on ftp.gnome.org?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Gabriel
>
> Hi Gabriel,
>
> ftp.gnome.org isn't _actually_ hosted by gnome but by some really
> friendly swedes. I've spoken with Stric, our contact for ftp.gnome.org
> and he has no problem with what you propose. They have about 20Tb of
> free disk space and their network pipe is something else. Check this
> out for reference:
> http://www.acc.umu.se/technical/statistics/ftp/monitordata/index.html.en
>
> How exactly do you cut a new release now? Do you just upload them to
> your servers and shoot out an email or something? I looked you up in
> mango and you've got ftp upload privileges so you should be able to do
> what you need from master.gnome.org.

Wow!  If we manage to make a non-negligible dent in that, we'll be
doing something right.

In terms of our release, we use `make dist` for our tarballs, and have
various scripts that produce our bundles/installers, then these get
scp'd to our server.  I've used ftp.gnome.org for pdfmod before, so I
don't think I'll have any trouble adapting our process.  Here's our
checklist: http://git.gnome.org/browse/banshee/tree/extras/README.releasing

Thanks,

Gabriel