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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 1.1.1 release problems (or How we can make it better next time..)
From:       Sean Kendall Schneyer <Sean.Schneyer () kau ! se>
Date:       1999-05-04 5:01:04
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Don Sanders wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 04 May 1999, Sean Kendall Schneyer wrote:
> >I really think that the mirror files should be checked
> > for accuracy during the last week, and that either the mirror
> > maintainers should be notified of the release so they can sync
> > in time, or that the files should be uploaded at least 24 hours
> > in advance.
> 
> Keep in mind that if that if the files had been uploaded 24 hours in advance,
> then 2 minutes later kde 1.1.1 would have been announced as being released
> making the official release notice 23hrs 58mins late, unlinked to and hence
> worthless. (And the main ftp server still would have been overloaded, and hence
> the mirrors wouldn't have a chance to sync)
> 
> So basically, "It's not that simple".

Well, I did offer another solution... that was to notify the
mirror maintainers as to what time they should sync. 
This would allow them to add an at job, for example, to do
the sync at the correct time.

// Sean
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