[MPlayer-dev-eng] Cleaning up incoming

[compn]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:23:44 +0100, Erik Auerswald wrote:
>Hi,
>
>a view from the outside:
>
>On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 05:07:02PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
>> On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 15:11 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 02:38:43PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > I'm against that. Making the partition smaller to intentionally cause
>> > > out-of-space problems is just that - intentionally and unnecessarily
>> > > causing problems where none existed before.
>> > 
>> > No, it solves the problems of people leaving (possibly important) samples
>> > in incoming until nobody knows anymore what they were there for and why.
>> 
>> You're claiming it would "solve" the problems, but the only thing it'd
>> directly do is cause _much worse_ problems.
>>
>> Ability to upload new samples is much higher priority than keeping
>> years-old samples, so endangering the former for the sake of the latter
>> is a bad idea.
>
>IMHO this is correct. While it would be nice to keep a history, it is
>obviously not feasible to keep _every_ sample. Thus removing the oldest
>samples (that obviously were not important enough to sort into a

wrong assumption. files are moved only when requested, or if its made
into a regression test. the rest of the files sit there because:

1. cant figure how to keep files in same location and sort easily
2. devs lack time to sort files
3. only a few devs have access to sort/move them.

-compn