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Give it a couple weeks to mirror. Right now we are having some issues with our primary mirror (see the threads by Mike Bird on this list), and the financial state of the project cannot support a high bandwidth to upload them faster.
Weeks?!?
Donations have dropped off sharply over the past two years (probably due to the lack of new releases); believe it or not I pull in less than 15% of my total *operating* costs (this does not include the cost of the equipment itself). This is a large donation on my part to the project, in addition to the heavy development I have done on TDE over the past 6 years, and I cannot continue to bleed cash on the required scale just to have a faster upload of packages I don't even use. From what I gather this is the sad state of affairs in many open source projects these days; this is all probably related to global economic issues but I cannot be sure.
I am hoping R14 will revitalize the project financially and I can then revisit these decisions, but for now I am constrained by factors outside of my control. TDE will continue to exist (a GIT server is quite cheap), but the future form of this project will be determined by our users in the coming months.
Sorry about the delay; I wish I could improve the speed but external factors impose constraints as always. :-)
I would have thought minimal QA was to ensure all mirrors were ready before pushing the official announcement. Carts and horses and all that.
They were, but the RPM builds were not ready. I made an administrative decision to release R14 at this time as the source was ready and the Debian/Ubuntu builds were ready. I considered that it would do more damage to both halt development for that length of time and spread out the "release" (thus causing loss of visibility) than it would to simply delay the RPM build availability.
While TDE has grown significantly from its early days we are still very small compared to large corporate-sponsored projects like KDE, Gnome, systemd, etc. This means our development process will, by nature, be slower and bumpier than that of the larger projects.
Tim
On re-reading this message my tone may have not reflected what I was actually thinking.
The RPM (and Slackware, and <insert distro here> packages are a very important part of TDE. I want to thank Francois for providing the RPM builds; much of my ire above is directed at the technical design of the various packaging systems which require a centralized repository to function. For small projects this is not much of an issue; for something the size of TDE we are suddenly looking at a 200GB archive and very high bandwidth costs even with a fairly sophisticated mirroring system in place.
TDE will continue to support various distributions for as long as their respective builders/maintainers are willing to provide packages; the initial transfer speeds to the mirror system will be degraded depending on the project's financial status but this is a relative nit imposed by the unfortunate constraints of the real world.
Tim