On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> PostgreSQL advocacy needs a place to upload and share images, design
>> files, flyer designs, etc. Previously we used pgfoundry for this, but
>> with pgfoundry broken we don't really have a site.
>>
>> We need something which allows:
>> * permissions control on who can upload stuff, including easily adding
>> new contributors
>> * some kind of change history (and retrieval of older versions) on files
>> * permanent image links for a minority of images (e.g. Slonik, etc.)
>> * easy bulk uploading and downloading of files
>> * ability to eventually handle ~~ 15GB of image files (1.5GB currently)
>>
>> The PG infrastructure could probably handle this via a combination of
>> git.postgresql.org and ftp publishing, but this would be a pain for our
>> infra team, and would require expansion of storage on several hosts. Or
>> we could do github + dropbox. Nothing's completely satisfactory,
>> though, so suggestions?
>>
>
> 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,
--
Michael