On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 10:27, Marc Poulhiès wrote: > > I usually look at the queue a few times a day (working day)... So at least in > my case, I may not be very active during the weekends (even less so this > weekend)... > As for unlocking too-big patches, I happen to accept the ones that are > "close" to the limit. I think I asked last year about the big translation > patches and someone (Jospeh IIRC) told me that it was ok to accept them. > Should I be more strict and reject anything above the limit?
I think if it's a real patch, not spam, then it's OK to accept it. The limit is there partly to stop spam with large PDF/docx/exe attachments that we never want on the lists. The fact that the limits might also make people think twice before sending half a megabyte of text to hundreds of people's inbox is a useful secondary effect IMHO :-) Very, very few people who receive 500kB of generated code or testcases are actually going to review all of that. On the other hand, if patchwork and the automated CI can't handle compressed attachments (can they?) then gzipping things causes other problems.
