I thought it was not possible to track downloads via bittorrent, am I
mistaken?
As you say, we would like to track donwloads for adoption metrics - both
in time and in geography. We are starting to track also Update Center
pings, and that will give us another mechanism to track adoption, but
that is just starting to phase in.
As GlassFish stats showing in more distros (OpenSolaris, Ubuntu, Other
Linux, etc) we will not be able to rely only on our download statistics,
so BitTorrent is just the beginning.
Although, in a sense, this will be a case of "a good problem to have" :-)
- eduard/o
Christopher Frost wrote:
> Good Evening/Morning,
> Noticing all the troubles lately with the download servers, etc.. I also
> brought up the idea about hosting torrents to ease the load on the servers,
> and the admins.
> I'd offer to set consolidate the torrents for all the downloads if you guys
> would like, just I'd need some people to help with the seeding initially,
> since I don't exactly have endless bandwidth here. The torrents themselves,
> or a tracker should be fine if needed.
> The reason I am asking first, is to see what the glassfish dev's and
> community wanted to do about it. I had a feeling that you might want to track
> the downloads, etc.. for research purposes.
> Please feel free to leave comments.. I am also in #glassfish on freenode.net
> as "FrostCS" .