Re: [gentoo-dev] Reducing the size of distfiles for our mirrors

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

While I tend to agree with you on your reasoning, what would you
consider a commercial product?

For example, many Linux games are volunteer efforts, even though they
may have a commercial entity behind the Windows version.  Here's an
example: America's Army.  It weighs in at something like 380MB, but the
Linux port is not offered at all from the official mirrors, but rather
from volunteer mirrors that Ryan Gordon (icculus) rounded up himself. 
Would it be in our best interest to take the load off the volunteer
servers?  I think so.

I guess my main concern is that we make a clear distinction between what
is commercial and what is not.

As for Bioware and Neverwinter Nights, it took them long enough to get a
client out, grab it from their servers... ;p

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 08:56, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:42:18PM -0400 or thereabouts, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > yep, nwn, it was a beast to d/l myself.
> > is the correct answer to this putting RESTRICT=nomirror ?  i thought that was 
> > client side only ... it hadnt occured to me that it would affect how the 
> > gentoo distfile mirrors would be created ...
> > 
> > if that is so i'll add RESTRICT=nomirror to a bunch of games ... many are a 
> > few hundred megs (mostly q3 mods) ...
> 
> We're actually in the process of working out a policy to address these
> issues.  The current *suggested* proposal is the following:
> 
> Per-file size limit:
> 
> commercial products > 100MB
> non-commercial products > 500MB
> 
> The reasoning behind this is that commercial products typically have
> resources and funding behind them to offer a fairly robust downloading
> experience to their users meaning we can avoid mirroring them ourselves
> without impacting our user base to a significant degree.  non-commercial
> products often don't have the same resources available to them, so we would
> continue to mirror all but the largest files in that case. (currently,
> there are no non-commercial products in our tree that would be affected by
> this cap limit)
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> --kurt


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