Size limits for images in xenial and beyond?

[Philip Muskovac]

Hi,

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.

Thanks,
Philip

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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