On Wednesday 22 June 2005 20.02, Olaf van der Spek wrote: [debian infrastructure] > I've been wondering, would it be an idea (for the long-term) to use > (more) distributed ... or p2p concepts to reduce the dependency and > load on central servers?
You said it yourself: in the long term. I think that some of the P2P network concepts might be very interesting for some things like file hosting etc. - but this won't be feasible within the next few weeks or even months. Additionally, you need to keep in mind that - depending on what exactly you'd want to do - current oldstable's tools would reasonably have to be supported at least until oldstable becomes veryoldstable, so any benefits of such a new system would have a big effect only slowly. So I guess, the standard open-source-project-answer applies: if you like the idea, write the code, propose to implement it - at least as a small-scale prototype - and then we'll look at it. cheers -- vbi -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 28th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3171
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