Duh, now I found this page, rather well hidden: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Plans+and+billing
Give it a try afterall? On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:45 PM, jeremy rosen <[email protected] > wrote: > you didn't mention carving out the translation branch, which would > make sense for commit-priv reasons... any thought on that ? > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Karol Nowak <[email protected]> wrote: > > How about bitbucket.org? > > > > https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=273877699 > > > > > > Karol > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Gna! does not host git repositories. Supposing it did, one of the > >> motivations for the move is a sense that Gna! is teetering on the > >> brink and not a safe place to remain. We need to pick a new > >> hosting site. > >> > >> GitHub has a lot of fans in Wesnoth's developer base. But it is not > >> going to be GitHub. The reason is size. > >> > >> AI0867 did a test conversion with git-svn to scope the size of the git > >> repo. With aggressive GC and repacking it is 1.4GiB. GitHub has a > >> limit of 1GiB per repo, not because of storage space but because they > >> fear downloaders becoming bandwidth hogs. Mordante asked the GitHub > >> admins for an exception to this policy; he was politely but definitely > >> denied. > >> > >> On IRC I have heard two different kinds of attempt to argue away this > >> denial. One was "but it's just described as a guideline, not a hard > >> quota". This will not wash; we asked the GitHub admins if they are > >> willing to host a 1.4GB repo and they said *no*. Trying to fly in the > >> face of that denial would poison our relationship with the site and > >> quite possibly get us kicked off for TOS violation. This is not a > >> risk that would be in any way prudent to take. > >> > >> The second form of evasion is various schemes to carve the repo into > >> chunks of less than 1GB size, by breaking out some subset of (a) > >> music, (b) the website branch, (c) the resource branch. > >> > >> This won't fly either. I could run exact numbers, but I don't need > >> to. We are *not* going to trim more than 400MiB off the main repo > >> this way (that's nearly a full third of the historical content!). And > >> even if we could, it wouldn't solve the real problem; what GitHub > >> cares about is the aggregate bandwith of our downloaders, not how it's > >> divvied up into parcels. They would (rightly) interpret a carve-up as > >> a skeevy attempt to end-run their refusal. > >> > >> The clincher is that our release manager wants (quite reasonably) that > >> everything that goes in a release bundle to be in one repo. That > >> precludes breaking out the music - and the other plausible split > >> candidates are small enough to be noise by comparison. > >> > >> So, no GitHub. I don't even have to get into my nervousness about > >> replicating the BitKeeper fiasco by relying on proprietary closed > >> source, or my near-certainty that trying to carve up the repo into > >> chunks would set us up for troublesome unanticipated synchronization > >> problems down the road. > >> > >> Given our circumstances, I think the obvious best candidate is > >> SourceForge. It doesn't have a size quota, we already own the > >> Wesnoth project there, and we'll be able to write our own > >> bugtracker integration hooks from git using the Allura API. > >> > >> However, I do not want to make that SourceForge decision unilaterally. > >> Senior devs and release manager, please weigh in on this. Please > >> either +1 or state a reasoned objection. > >> -- > >> <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev >
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