On 2010-01-28 16:47-0800 David MacMahon wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2010, at 5:06 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> On 2010-01-27 23:04-0800 David MacMahon wrote: >> >>> Is it generally OK to send patches to plplot-devel [...] >> >> Yes. Sending patches to plplot-devel as a compressed attachment is the >> preferred method. > > Thanks. Do you know what the size limit is on attachments sent to the list?
As plplot-devel mailing list administrator, I long ago decided to set no size limit because I was irritated at other lists that had anal-retentive limits that interfered with communications. Such limits are especially bad for development lists like this one where we often need to send screenshots (to debug platform-dependent rendering issues), complete error reports, patches, etc. Of course, there is some wastage of bandwidth for such mailing lists because not everybody is interested in all e-mails (and attachments for those e-mails) to the list. But even though your post to the list might be directed at just one person to start, it is amazing how often someone else on the list that you didn't have in mind sees the post and responds. Therefore, as far as I am concerned, PLplot developers have plenty of scope via this list to attach anything they like that is on topic. As a courtesy to those with limited bandwidth it would probably be a good idea to compress large attachments (surely there is a git patch option to do that routinely?) Also, compression works around ISP's who routinely strip text attachments. To give you a bit of practical guidance on this question, I made a 0.7MB post recently (I think a number of screenshots were involved) and nobody complained. However, I imagine you would get lots of complaints if your tried to send anything off-topic to the list as an attachment or if you persisently attached large (several Megabyte) uncompressed files. But that has never been an issue. The flip side of this is your recent post of your complete error report to a website rather than to the list was being way too cautious about bandwidth since that compressed tarball was only 83K (!) in size. :-) Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
