Hi, On 2 May 2016 01:37, "Steve Langasek" <[email protected]> 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).
Ubuntu MATE followed the expanded language support that was added to Ubuntu. This added a few hundred MB to the iso size, for good reason and has been well received in the Ubuntu MATE community. > 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) I would opt for 2GB as the limit for Ubuntu MATE, although we aiming to stay well below that. > 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, > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ > [email protected] [email protected] > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Colin Watson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > Cc: > Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 11:05:02 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Daily CD health checks > This is a daily health check report on all CD images. > If you have any questions, contact Colin Watson <[email protected]>. > > ubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-amd64+mac.iso oversized by 19496960 bytes (1093238784) > ubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 3997696 bytes (1077739520) > ubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 6127616 bytes (1079869440) > > > ubuntu-server/daily: yakkety-server-powerpc.iso oversized by 10481664 bytes (747147264) > > > kubuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 217645056 bytes (1501102080) > kubuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 238796800 bytes (1522253824) > > > mythbuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 414179328 bytes (1150844928) > mythbuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 347463680 bytes (1084129280) > mythbuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 686612480 bytes (1423278080) > mythbuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 609017856 bytes (1345683456) > > > lubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-amd64+mac.iso oversized by 53960704 bytes (790626304) > lubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 56057856 bytes (792723456) > lubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 45572096 bytes (782237696) > lubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-powerpc.iso oversized by 113637376 bytes (850302976) > lubuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 145186816 bytes (881852416) > lubuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 147283968 bytes (883949568) > lubuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-powerpc.iso oversized by 238964736 bytes (975630336) > > lubuntu/daily: trusty-alternate-amd64+mac.iso oversized by 25649152 bytes (762314752) > lubuntu/daily: yakkety-alternate-amd64.iso oversized by 20406272 bytes (757071872) > lubuntu/daily: yakkety-alternate-i386.iso oversized by 18309120 bytes (754974720) > lubuntu/daily: yakkety-alternate-powerpc.iso oversized by 56328192 bytes (792993792) > > > ubuntu-gnome/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 173490176 bytes (1247232000) > ubuntu-gnome/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 206749696 bytes (1280491520) > > > ubuntu-mate/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 562397184 bytes (1636139008) > ubuntu-mate/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 572604416 bytes (1646346240) > ubuntu-mate/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-powerpc.iso oversized by 678367232 bytes (1752109056) > > > ubuntukylin/daily-live: trusty-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 521625600 bytes (1258291200) > ubuntukylin/daily-live: trusty-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 504848384 bytes (1241513984) > ubuntukylin/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 803823616 bytes (1540489216) > ubuntukylin/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 831152128 bytes (1567817728) > > -- > Ubuntu-release mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release >
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