On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 4:41 PM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi all, > > the distributions repo[1] is huge (current ~ 26GiB), and it will grow > further over time; that causes issues when trying to check it out[2], > and frankly, I don't see why were having the tarballs in a VCS at all. > > Wouldn't it be more suitable to make the tarballs available somewhere > else? Since we're using Github anyway, an appropriate place could be > the tags, where it is already possible to add attachments. > > From what I can tell, that would require some modifications to web-php > and web-qa, so that the proper download links would be available there, > but otherwise shouldn't be a big issue. > One possible issue I see is that anyone with write access to the repo can upload release artifacts (I think), and I'm not even sure if changes in artifacts show up in the audit log. Nikita
