Re: lilypond.org - file storage

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2015 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: lilypond.org - file storage


> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 01:15:48PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > We also have source files back to 0.0 and 1.0.  I assume we could
> > never recreate these from Git, but are we ever going to need to?  It
> > certainly seems pointless keeping lots of source tarballs, given
> > that all the more recent history is in Git.
>
> I think it would be nice to keep the ancient history around; "software
> archeology" research sometimes look at open-source projects.  That said,
> they don't necessarily need to be on that particular web server.
> Something like Amazon Glacier could work well for that, or maybe google
> drive... there are other storage platforms available.
> (and no, I'm not in a position to offer to take care of this)
>
> I fully support deleting all test-output for non-current development
> versions.  (though again, in an ideal world they would be stored on some
> other server or service)
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham


I'm happy in principle with keeping as much as we can, and happy to do the 
work.  Problem is, AFAIK we only have SSH access to lilypond.org, so the 
only way to move these files somewhere else is via my PC via DSL: very slow 
and will kill my bandwidth limit.  The best way to do this would be to 
another server with ftp, SCP or whatever support: but these tend not to be 
provided by the free providers.

If all else fails I'd be prepared to buy lifetime hosting of an unlimited 
package with my current provider, but before doing that: is there any part 
of the Free community that provides free archiving?

--
Phil Holmes