Re: Retire distributions repo in favor of something more suitable

> On Apr 27, 2021, at 09:41, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@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. > > Thoughts? Co-signed. I tried downloading it yesterday to add my key to the keyring, but I canceled when I realized that my laptop might run out of space. ;-) Cheers, Ben

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