Re: Attachments on the tracker

[Phil Holmes]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
> To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 12:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Attachments on the tracker
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> > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:20:33AM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > > We're now using 33.4 MB (66% of total attachment quota) on the bug
> > > tracker for attachments.  At some point we will (I assume) need to
> > > prune some of the attachments to avoid running out of space.  I
> > > think it would make sense to delete some of the attachments on
> > > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1562 since these
> > > are quite large and have done their job.  Does it make sense to
> > > start pruning now?
> >
> > When I last looked into this, google code didn't allow any
> > deleting -- when you click the "delete attachment" thing, it just
> > hides it.
> >
> > The "appropriate" method to deal with this appears to be to find
> > the google code feature request to allow deleting attachments,
> > complain that we're almost out of space, and then a google person
> > increases our disk space quota.
> >
> > It sounds insane, but hey, if that's the way they want to do
> > stuff... *shrug*
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - Graham
>
>
> I'll try deleting one of the images on 1060 - I've downloaded it if it's 
> still needed - and see if it is still just hidden, or the free space 
> increases.  If the latter, I'll do the complaint.


Still the same.  They call it "soft delete".  I'll keep my eye on the use.

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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad