[mirror-admin] download-i2 has bits flipped?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:25:56 -0500
Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 11:53:30AM +0100, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> > I have discovered that users of my mirror are already downloading
> > the F16 release, and the reason is that my upstream,
> > download-i2.fedora.redhat.com, has already its permission bits
> > flipped to open:
> 
> I believe this is done on purpose, so that at release time, mirrors
> have had time to rsync the bitflip and don't need to manually flip the
> bits.

Yep. We have been doing the bitflip earlier in the morning of release
day just for this reason. ;) 

Sure it means things are open a bit before official release time, but
it means lots more mirrors are available at offical release time. ;) 

kevin

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