[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-community-team] QGIS webserver size vs publishing old docs

[Alexandre Neto]

I would say keeping 3 LTRs documentations would be more than enough, if needed we can leave just keep the PDFs for historic.

Alexandre Neto

On Mon Mar 20, 2023, 11:21 AM GMT, DelazJ <mailto:delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all (and sorry for the cross-post)
>
> Richard has raised the issue a couple of times with no specific feedback/decision but I think now we NEED to go forward : there is not enough space on our servers to store everything we want to share.
> Yesterday, I updated the docs infrastructure to serve translated versions of the 3.28 documentation but they are not published this morning, probably because of lack of space to get them pasted.
>
> # du -hs *
> 255M doc-test
> 579M QGIS-Documentation
> 7.2G QGIS-Documentation-2.14
> 6.3G QGIS-Documentation-2.18
> 7.7G QGIS-Documentation-2.8
> 12G QGIS-Documentation-3.10
> 11G QGIS-Documentation-3.16
> 9.4G QGIS-Documentation-3.22
> 579M QGIS-Documentation-3.28
> 8.0G QGIS-Documentation-3.4
> 31G QGIS-tests
> 16G QGIS-Website
>
> An option could be to rent a bigger webserver but a few questions/suggestions so far (I'm only speaking for the docs as I don't know what is behind other folders):
> - Do we need to serve all these versions? FYI we recently silently removed and redirected <2.8 docs (and nobody complained) so we could probably be more "aggressive"
> - It could be nice to define some strategy on this area: e.g. we keep publishing master, current LTR, previous LTR and any older URL is redirected to current LTR --> meaning that today we would be serving only testing in English, 3.28 and 3.22 in English + translations. OR one more older LTR (ie 3.16)?
>
> PS: this issue somehow also affects the PyQGIS documentation repo [0], due to github-pages size limits
>
> Regards,
> Harrissou
>
> [0] https://github.com/qgis/pyqgis/issues/104#issuecomment-1354338491 <https://github.com/qgis/pyqgis/issues/104#issuecomment-1354338491>
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