Re: [Dragora-devel] Proposal for package hosting

[Matias A. Fonzo]

El Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:16:29 -0300
Mateus Pinto Rodrigues <address@hidden> escribió:
> Hi dragorians! I talked briefly with frusen about a crazy idea I had,
> I think it is worth looking into, so I'm writing here and waiting for
> your comments.
> 
> The idea is we create a distributed repo, everyone that wants to
> participate can, you don't even need to run dragora in your machine,
> so everyone participating would share a tiny portion of his disk and
> we would distribute the packages between these, that way we don't
> need a server running 24/7 and won't have a single point of failure,
> we won't get rid of the mirrors it is just another option and a new
> form that people can contribute to dragora. Sometimes we get people
> that are sympathetic to free software but cant donate money, for
> example, or aren't devs, or don't have much time, this is a great way
> of collaborating.
> 
> So if you think this might be a good idea I'll look into protocols
> like bittorrent and bitcoin so we can make our own system, it doesn't
> need to be complex.
> 

All of this sounds great -- long as we can count with the mirrors,
incrementing the *availability* of software.  Have you looked for an
existing project for this task?.

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