Re: [Dragora-devel] Proposal for package hosting

[Mateus Pinto Rodrigues]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:45:56 -0300
"Matias A. Fonzo" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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?.
> 

Just briefly, but I don't think something with this purpose has come
out yet, but as I mentioned above other tools could be reworked to do
this.

-- 
Best Regards.

Mateus Pinto Rodrigues (mprodrigues) [66679238]
free software enthusiast and developer
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