Hi Steve, Ubuntu GNOME decided a while back that our hard size limit would be to fit on a 2GB usb stick, and just aim internally not to unnecessarily bloat the images. We just never got around to getting the limits officially bumped up.
I don't think we need to be subscribed to oversize emails, the oversized warnings are displayed in enough places, that it would be hard to miss. Thanks Tim On 02/05/16 10:35, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi folks, > > It's been several years now since the last time the Ubuntu desktop fit on a > CD and we raised the limit for oversized images. However, while we had a > roadmap for a few cycles for how to raise the limit gradually to keep > healthy pressure in place, we've gone past the end of that and daily images > have been reporting as "oversized" for quite a while now. > > This generates daily emails to members of the release team and cdimage team, > which then basically are seeing no follow-up because we know nobody cares > about these limits but no one has set new ones. > > I've finally gone ahead and bumped the limit on Ubuntu desktop images, > shortly before xenial release, to 2GB for a minimally-sized USB stick; this > gives us a new limit that I think we will care about, while also leaving us > headroom so we're not constantly fighting it back down to the line (current > images are ~1.4GB). > > But Ubuntu Desktop is not the only image that's oversized according to the > stated limits - there are lots of others (see attached mail). As all of > these images have been released with 16.04, it's clear that these limits > aren't important to the owners of those products either. > > Can I ask flavor leads to please reply to this email and answer two > questions: > > - What should the size limit be for your images, for 16.04 and later? > - Do you want to be subscribed to the email notifications of oversized > images - and if so, what address? > > For maintainability purposes, it would be helpful if we didn't have too many > different per-flavor image limits. I'd recommend using one of the limits > already present in our checks: > > 850MB > 950MB > 1GiB (not GB - technically this means it doesn't fit on a 1GB USB stick, > but who has 1GB USB sticks anymore?) > 1224MiB (? should probably be made 1.2GiB...) > 1.46GB (mini DVD) > 2GB (== 2GB USB stick) > DVD (4590208KiB) > > OTOH those are some pretty big jumps in between, so if a flavor wanted to > scale in, say, 100MB or 200MB increments, that would probably be ok... but > please, let's not keep mixing MiB and MB everywhere :) > > Thanks, > > -- Ubuntu-release mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
