On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 12:09:25PM +0200, Philip Muskovac wrote: > for Kubuntu please set the Limit to 2GB. We would like to stick to ~1.5 for > the time being to save people from downloading too much, but we don't need > the warning for that.
> The email notifications can stay as they are for now. Limit updated, 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] > Am 02.05.2016 um 02:35 schrieb Steve Langasek: > >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, > > > > >
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