IdeaTorrent

Hey!

After much hesitation and cursing at domain name squatters, this is settled: the piece of software powering Ubuntu Brainstorm will be called IdeaTorrent! Why so? Besides the fact that it was one of the very few available domain names, there is the secret long term plan to make the IdeaTorrent instances collaborate between themselves, in a P2P fashion. But shhh, that's a secret!

At the moment, IdeaTorrent is designed for and powering Ubuntu Brainstorm only. That means that there are a few things that are specific to Ubuntu. Eventually, it will become project-neutral, and easily-installable tarballs will be available, but some work is required. When will it be available? I hate to promise things I can't keep, but hopefully I'd say at the end of the year.

For now, the website will be pretty basic:

• http://devel.ideatorrent.org contains the automatically up-to-date development version of IdeaTorrent, set up with a snapshot version of the Ubuntu Brainstorm database. That means that you can login with your Ubuntu Brainstorm login and test whatever you want: all will be erased at next the update.
• The forums, for feedback on the development version.

Thanks for reading!