[or-cvs] r18861: {website} Add torrent based package distribution as an idea for volunt (website/trunk/en)

[sebastian at seul.org]

Author: sebastian
Date: 2009-03-10 08:50:06 -0400 (Tue, 10 Mar 2009)
New Revision: 18861

Modified:
   website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml
Log:
Add torrent based package distribution as an idea for volunteers

Modified: website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml
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--- website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml	2009-03-10 12:44:48 UTC (rev 18860)
+++ website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml	2009-03-10 12:50:06 UTC (rev 18861)
@@ -615,6 +615,21 @@
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 <li>
+<b>Implement a torrent-based scheme for downloading Thandy packages</b>
+<br />
+<a
+href="http://git.torproject.org/checkout/thandy/master/specs/thandy-spec.txt">Thandy</a>
+is a relatively new software to allow automatic updates of Tor and related
+software. Currently, there are very few users, but we expect Thandy to be
+used by almost every Tor user in the future. To avoid crashing servers on
+the day of a Tor update, we need new ways to distribute new packages
+efficiently, and using libtorrent seems to be a possible solution. If you
+think of other good ideas, great - please do let us know!<br />
+We also need to investigate how to include our mirrors better. If possible,
+there should be an easy way for them to help distributing the packages.
+</li>
+
+<li>
 <b>Bring up new ideas!</b>
 <br />
 Don't like any of these? Look at the <a