From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-10-18T06:32:29+09:00
Subject: Re: gem server horked?

On 10/17/05, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:
>
> The problem is that RubyForge is on a relatively small network
> connection - 768K.  Mirroring out large files helps tremendously, but
> there's still a ton of content being served through that pipe.

Back when I was first envisioning the original RubyGems, I had
thoughts about serving gems using a peer-to-peer system. You can see
some of this old brainstorming still (in the old section):

http://rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyGems

I still think this might be a good idea. These days we have even more
P2P protocols to choose from. Even if we didn't do client-side P2P, it
might be nice to at least have some kind of server P2P, or some kind
of redudancy.

As great of a service that is provided by RubyForge (thanks Tom!), it
still represents a weak link. We don't want to turn away new users
with something like this.

Ryan