Re: Storing marketing materials

[Andreas Nilsson <andreas andreasn se>]

On 11/14/2011 09:51 AM, Allan Day wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Andreas Nilsson<andreas andreasn se>  wrote:
> > On 11/11/2011 10:18 AM, Allan Day wrote:
> > > I've asked around and it seems like a Git repository could be the 
> > > best option for us right now. We could host it on Gitorious or 
> > > Github, both of which allow you to download a tarball of the entire 
> > > repository if you want its contents on a one off basis. You could 
> > > also access the repository using Sparkleshare [1]. 
> > I'm for storing things in gnome git itself and not spread resources out
> > across different servers too much.
> > For the website resources specifically I've created
> > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnomeweb-src
> > - Andreas
> I'd prefer to host on GNOME infrastructure if I can. I can see a few
> issues there though:
>
> 1) No GUI way to download the repository as a tarball
This is indeed a problem. Fixable with some kind of script that just 
tars it up maybe?
> 2) I don't want it to be slow to give new people accounts
This is a issue for all of git.gnome.org, but to some extent good too.
Maybe we could just have a mirror on git.gnome.org. Is that doable?

One point that I would like to raise is that I would be cautious about 
embracing non-free infrastructure, since I think that's a fight worth 
fighting.
- Andreas