Re: Size of release tarballs

Hi! > Lately there was a discovering about some files causing size growth > of the release tarballs > > https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/469206c84e502e3e349655b802899d5e4d560f72 > . Usually we strive to keep tarballs as small as possible and avoid > disproportional growth of the size. This case seems to be of the > exact nature. I would like to ask for an explicit response from RMs > on this case. I'd say we probably should not include multi-megabyte images in the distros. Most tests should be fine with a small image. > Perhaps it were also a good point to discuss a way to prevent big > binary files to land in the repo. So far some files in the repo can I think we can handle it in the old-fashioned way now - just notify the RMs and clean up the repos. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com