From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-08-20T07:50:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyforge really slow?

In article <BD4A299C.10AA5%rich@infoether.com>,
Richard Kilmer  <rich@infoether.com> wrote:
>Well, folks downloaded the RubyInstaller 187 times over the last two days
>(its not grown to 11MB)...definately our big fish.  

I noticed the growth when I downloaded it a couple of days ago.  I 
remember the old days when a Ruby download was under 2MB.

Here's a crazy idea: What if the download page presented a menu of items 
you wanted included with your Ruby download?  Something like:

  __ Tk
  __ Fox
  __ Gtk
  __ FreeRide
  __ YourFavoritePackageHere

Maybe by default they're all selected yielding the 11MB download, but the 
user could deselect items they don't need thus resulting in a smaller 
download (usually you don't need both Tk and Fox, for example).


>When tom returns from
>vacation, I will try and find out what we can do re: mirroring certain
>downloads.  The network link is fine, but we are just getting lots of
>traffic...fact of life when we have limited resources.  The issue with
>mirroring is that gforge, the project management system that rubyforge is
>based on, tracks downloads to files.  The mirroring would thus have to be
>built into gforge itself (or accessed through gforge's link to a file) so
>that tracking can still occur.  That's a development task...so lets see what
>we can do next week.

What about the WhiteWater tool developed for distributing Rubyx?

http://ww.walrond.org/
http://www.rubyx.org/

....might be worth a look?  The drawback is that you'd have to convince 
people to run WW on their boxen.

Phil