I just tested and .gz files work. That's the default savefile format, so it
seems to be fine in that front.

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 1:39 AM Lipka Boldizsár <lip...@zoho.com> wrote:

> As I see, the advantages of GitHub are a prettier interface, better
> integration of the bug tracker and the code repository and slightly simpler
> rights management for developers. The downside is that, despite looking
> horrible, Gna actually has *more* features than GitHub, so the migration
> would be a downgrade in a certain way. There are two particular
> shortcomings of GitHub that concern me:
>
> * No anonymous submissions.
> * Limited set of file types as attachments. Apparently I can't upload
> CFG-s, neither GZ-s (in spite of them being listed in the help article).
>
> I'd like to vote for GitHub, but I'm not entirely convinced. No savefile
> attachments sounds pretty bad. Of course you can circumvent that
> limitation, but every little burden can turn down a potential bug reporter.
>
> ---- On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 15:56:29 +0200 *Charles Dang
> <exodia...@gmail.com <exodia...@gmail.com>>*wrote ----
>
> I intend to migrate any open bugs from our tracker on GNA to our GitHub
> repo's built-in issue tracker soon. GNA's interface is ancient and clunky,
> and maintaining a separate tracker is unnecessary effort. It also can lead
> to situations where new developers may not be able to do anything but
> submit new bugs if they aren't added as contributors to the GNA project,
> not to mention having to create a whole new account or have their bugs
> submitted anonymously. Using GitHub would also allow for better and
> easier collaboration and management of bugs.
>
> In the past, it was argued that GitHub doesn't have sufficient attachment
> support. That is no longer the case. According to this help article
> <https://help.github.com/articles/file-attachments-on-issues-and-pull-requests/>,
> they now support:
>
>    - PNG (.png)
>    - GIF (.gif)
>    - JPEG (.jpg)
>    - Microsoft Word (.docx), Powerpoint (.pptx), and Excel (.xlsx)
>    documents
>    - Text files (.txt)
>    - PDFs (.pdf)
>    - ZIP (.zip, .gz)
>
> This should be sufficient.
>
> There was also some talk before about hosting our own Redmine tracker. In
> my opinion, this would be more unnecessary maintenance overhead for little
> gain.
>
> If anyone has any opposition to this, or wishes to suggest an alternative,
> do reply here.
>
> Thanks,
> Charles Dang (Vultraz, Community Manager)
>
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