Bandwidth problems at beta time (was: Re: today's UEC report)

[Jono Bacon]

On 10/02/2009 09:05 PM, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
> Ken asked me to help him test some empathy stuff today and grabbing
> the build-deps took over 10 minutes for a few hundred k's worth of
> packages. I have a caching proxy at home so normally it's not so bad
> but I am starting to wonder if there should be an ACLable mirror
> available to people in core-dev/MOTU/bugcontrol/whatever so people can
> get the important stuff done. In the past I've gotten emails from the
> ISO tracker before my original rsync is even close to done so the pain
> just multiplies over the course of the end of the cycle..
>
> I think it's great that we have so much enthusiam for a release but
> surely we can set aside a certain percentage of bandwidth for people
> to get their testing done.
>
>    
I agree. I think we need to find a better solution for this problem. 
What does everyone else think?

     Jono


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