apt-zeroconf team mailing list archive

["Jorge O. Castro" <jorge@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I've just started the mailing list for this team. ausimage and I had a
quick phone call to find out what he has been working on and we
decided to kick this off on the mailing list. Here's the short
summary.

 * Lars Wirzenius is working on zsync for karmic, that is, delta
upgrades for apt.
 * This handles the "your LAN to the internet" traffic problem
 * It would be nice if on top of that we provided a local solution for
LANs that would save outgoing bandwidth on top of the zsync savings
for:
   * Home networks
   * Universities, businesses, etc.
   * People and countries with metered bandwidth
 * Fixing apt-zeroconf would be a nice summer project for LoCos.
 * It's all just a bunch of python.
 * Nodes on a network can just autodiscover themselves and serve each
other packages
   * what happens when a node shuts down mid-transfer?
   * Security?
 * Jeremy needs someone who knows python-apt so we can share code/use
as a library
 * Jorge needs to know what hackers need, can work docs, translations,
getting volunteers, finding packagers.
   * Need hackers to tell me what is missing so I can find
subject-matter-experts to answer questions.
 * Project is here: https://launchpad.net/apt-zeroconf
   * People encouraged to dig in, get started.
   * Encourage use of mailing lists to coordinate work.
 * HAVE FUN!

-- 
Jorge Castro
jorge (at) ubuntu.com
External Project Developer Relations
Canonical Ltd.