Dear Kolja, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > there's currently a limit on the size of postings to the urjtag-dev mailing > list of around 40 kb. Recently several patches came in, yesterday one as > large > as a megabyte.
My experience from running the U-Boot mailing list (which carries much more traffic than UrJTAG-dev) is the following: - we used to have a 40 kB soft / 100 kB hard limit for a long time; a majority of users asked repeatedly to lift this limit - when moving the list to another hoster we changed the limit to 100 kB soft / 400 kB hard. This has been working pretty well so far. My experience is that a pretty large number of messages exceeding the 100 kB limit is well worth of being filtered out; quite often the poster included large parts of the source code without thinking, often also in plain text _and_ in HTML. There is only a really tiny number of reasonable messages exceeding the hard limit. For these we request to put the patches on some web site (we offer a wiki page where these can be added as attachments easily) and post a link instead. This works well for us, but it requires a certain amount of attention from the list moderator. YMMV... > Shall we remove the limit, or create another list for patches without such > limit, or prefer some other mechanism? There's also the tracker which > originally was used for uploading patches. However, it is not so well suited > for discussing the patch content (no quotations) and as far as I remember it > doesn't allow non-project-members to update attachments etc. You might also want to look into Patchwork, see http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/help/about/ Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] When all is said and done, more is said than done. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ UrJTAG-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/urjtag-development
