[cfe-dev] [llvm-dev] Euro LLVM videos finally online - proposal to use torrents for sharing

[Jonathan Roelofs via cfe-dev]

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On 9/8/15 4:19 PM, Jonathan Roelofs wrote:
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> On 9/8/15 4:13 PM, Sean Silva via llvm-dev wrote:
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>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev
>> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
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>>     On Sep 8, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Renato Golin via llvm-dev
>>     <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
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>>     > On 8 September 2015 at 19:20, Tanya Lattner <tonic at nondot.org
>> <mailto:tonic at nondot.org>> wrote:
>>     >> Youtube has been discussed in the past but we have usually
>> defaulted to
>>     >> mainly hosted onllvm.org <http://llvm.org> and then a copy
>> could potentially be on
>>     YouTube. I
>>     >> would want this to be an official posting though.
>>     >
>>     > Youtube is used by many foundations and conferences out there as
>> the
>>     > official channel for their presentations, tutorial videos,
>> outreach,
>>     > etc.
>>     >
>>     > It can also be embedded in web pages, and there are good builtin
>>     > plugins for all mobile platforms and browsers. It's not as easy to
>>     > make an mp4 work out of the box in a way that you hope it would.
>>     >
>>     > I don't see a problem in hosting the videos *in addition* to having
>>     > them in a CDN, but especially because Youtube is free and
>> ubiquitous,
>>     > anything else (maybe apart from Vimeo) would be less ideal,
>> especially
>>     > if they require plugins for browsers or mobiles, even if they're
>> free.
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>>     Anything that doesn’t *offer* a download option (breaking ToS is not
>>     an option) shouldn't be considered as the primary hosting IMO, which
>>     disqualify Youtube IIUC their ToS.
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>>     Tanya's proposal seems nice: having the video hosted by llvm.org
>>     <http://llvm.org> and mirrored to Youtube would be a good tradeoff.
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> Preferably also with a note nearby saying that people linking to
> HN/reddit/slashdot should use the CDN version, rather than the llvm.org
> version... it's not fun when that kind of DDoS brings down the services
> we need for development.
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> Jon
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>> +1
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>> -- Sean Silva
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>>     —
>>     Mehdi
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