On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 7:53 AM, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > Erik Bray wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Please don't attach binaries to trac; Everything that is attached becomes >>> forever part of the trac database. Which is already in the multi-gigabyte >>> range IIRC. >> >> That's not exactly true--attachments are not stored in the database. >> But the collection of attachments is quite large. I wouldn't be >> worried about disk space though. > > I thought that was rather a backup than a trac problem. > > In the past we were told to not attach *any* binary files because they > would end up in some (VCS?) repo where they would remain forever even > after deletion on trac.
This is true now as well. I have bup-based automatic backups of trac running. (bup is built on git). William > > I couldn't find any reference to that in our current documentation > though. (I'm pretty sure there used to be a note on that in the Sage > trac guidelines, or at least on the main page of the Sage trac wiki, and > at some point we had spkg-upload.googlecode.com for exactly that > purpose, at least for those without a sage.math cluster account, when > everybody's home folder was accessible via HTTP.) > > > -leif > > >>> On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 12:43:28 AM UTC+2, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there any deep reason to 2MB attachment limit on Trac? Can it be >>>> increased to, say, 100MB? Would be convenient to be able to upload new >>>> packages there rather than figuring out some place to post them. >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> Andrey >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
