On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Andrey Novoseltsev <novos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 20:13:56 UTC-6, William wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Paul Masson <paulm...@comcast.net> wrote: >> > What about a "packages" repository on GitHub just to store files? >> >> I was also going to suggest that. A drawback is we would have to add >> all trac users to the Github repo, so hundreds and hundreds of people, >> many probably not even on github right now. So the overhead of a >> common repo that everyone uses would be prohibitive. >> >> Of course, people could just put their own packages in a repo and post >> a link to that. I assume this was already obvious to Andrey though, >> and he considers it to be too much of a pain. >> >> -- William >> > > Actually, it was not (in my defence I didn't give it much sort). What I used > to do was copy it to sage.math.washington.edu and post a link (which was > conveniently wget-able). It was obvious and easy to do. Uploading a file to > trac would be even easier and more obvious and would not require any extra > setup/thinking/knowledge on my part. It also would be so obvious, that there > would be no need to even document it somehow. Any other service/solution > needs to be explained in the documentation guide and kept up-to-date when > something changes. > > So personally I really really prefer being able to upload bigger files to > trac directly from the ticket page. What's the point of backing up > attachments there forever anyway? With mercurial attachments were patches. > Now I think they tend to be some screenshots or log files or something which > is not quite as crucial. With disk snapshots there is a fallback and a more > resilient backup can be concerned only with what people have typed, i.e. the > code and discussions themselves. Perhaps it is also possible just keep the > current 2MB limits for picking attachments that have to be backed up in case > we do care about screenshots. >
Great argument. I think we should increase the attachment limit, but not backup the big attachments using bup. -- William -- 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.
