Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Where to put shared designs/images

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:17 AM, damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info>wrote:

> Le 11/02/2014 02:10, Josh Berkus a écrit :
> >
> >>> I think github (or maybe bitbucket, does mercurial have the same
> >>> issues as git for dealing with images?) is probably the way to go. we
> >>> need something where people can do social coding without a lot of
> >>> permissions overhead. (As an example, our graphic designer did some
> >>> work on the postgres logos for LISA this year, but couldn't get past
> >>> the pgfoundry process to give that back publicly; if it had been on
> >>> github, it would have been much simpler to do a pull request).
> >> Definitely. A simple idea would be to create a git repo dedicated to
> >> advocacy in the organization "postgres" of github
> >> (https://github.com/postgres/) Push permissions can be handled easily
> >> from there. My 2c.
> >> Regards,
> >
> > So I'm happy with github as a choice. However, I don't know that
> > there's any way to do "link to the latest version of raw file X", so
> > we'd still want to publish stuff to FTP.postgresql.org, no?
> >
>
> First of all, this is a great idea !
>
> We've been hosting the French-related advocacy files at github for a
> while. It's a decent way to share things.
>
> https://github.com/postgresqlfr/pgfr_materials
>
> You can have raw link and history link such as
>
> Latest version:
>
> https://raw2.github.com/postgresqlfr/pgfr_materials/master/advocacy/posters/keepcalm/Keep-calm-and-use-postgres.png
>
> an older version:
>
> https://raw2.github.com/postgresqlfr/pgfr_materials/9316144e077fe3c6f084211eb06384d83b37a26d/advocacy/posters/keepcalm/Keep-calm-and-use-postgres.png
>
> However space is an issue because even though Github does not have a
> strict limit for the max repo size, they do warn people to avoid repo
> larger than 1GB and files larger than 100MB. With a lot of bitmap files
> (think Photoshop or Gimp) it may become a problem.
>

Repo size at github is not likely to be a problem for us, we have an
exception already.

Repo size for end users probably is.

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