On Friday 22 November 2013 19:35:26 Richard Brown wrote:
On 22 November 2013 19:16, Stephan Kulow <coolo@suse.de> wrote:
Am 22.11.2013 18:34, schrieb Michal Hrusecky:
Hi,
I'm trying to convince people to put all our git repos in one place (move people who are still on gitorious to github) and I run accross art repository[1]. Is there still something valuable/needed or is everything moved already to github?
In the later case, I would like to propose to delete this repository...
Apart from that I noticed that artwork repo is quite huge... Have you ever thought about splitting it? We can split it into submodules and put some simple usage script in so you could still clone everything but you could also clone only parts of it and save some space. All that while keeping history.
What do you think about that?
I already moved branding out of it for that reason.
Greetings, Stephan
Hmm, splitting isn't a half bad idea.
My personal opinion is that GitHub isn't the best tool for many of our artists contributing to openSUSE, especially when we often need to share drafts (like we're going to need to do for the next release, which I think is gonna need a nice art refresh :))
GitHub's preference for 'small(er)' file sizes can be quite a hindrance, plus git doesn't necessarily come naturally to those contributors who don't also commit code
I've looked around for a solution, and I'd like to trial using an ownCloud instance - I think it will do the job quite nicely, and the combination of both a 'sync' client, 'live access' clients (any WebDAV client) and the web interface should make it possible for see and contribute stuff to what is currently in the GitHub artwork repo (where features like code review aren't needed)
What does everyone think about this? If its popular with the team, I'll pull a finger out and speak to someone from the infrastructure team about the viability
Of course, I think it should go without saying that I think -branding should stay as it is, where it is, in GitHub
In short
* Yes, delete gitorious/artwork unless someone else screams they're still using it * Splitting further sounds like a great idea, but I'd like to consider a more 'artist appropriate' tool like ownCloud first * Whatever we decide to do for artwork, lets leave branding where it is.
Thoughts?
I have asked the sysadmin team for a solution for this a while ago. Their answer was that they would prefer to try and put as much in existing tools, rather than running owncloud or other solutions. They proposed to use progress.opensuse.org for this. It has file storage abilities and with some plugins it could be a very comfortable home for our artwork. They are currently looking into this and while it won't be this year, they will present what they have come up with as soon as they have something. Now of course we could try to speed things up, try to host something like owncloud somewhere etc., but I suggest that we've survived this long with github another month won't kill us; and we wouldn't want to rely on infrastructure that our sysadmin team doesn't have access to for something as essential as artwork. If only because whoever hosts it could get sued to Jerusalem for copyright infringement. In short, as Andy said - I've asked the sysadmins and they are looking into it. I suggest we let them do their thing ;-) /J -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org