[Qgis-psc] Attachment file types on issues

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Steven,

Having the github issue tracker would be awesome since it integrates so
nicely with the rest of the workflow like pull requests and comments on
commits which we use heavily (and happily). An external service would
also work for us as long as it is straightforward to use, especially if
it would be based on the github user credentials.
Most of the datasets we receive are shapefiles or spatialite files
(sqlite databases) often in zip files - so yes, they are binary data. So
far we had an upload limit of 5 MB in place. At the moment we have about
1.5GB files accumulated over the last 5 years.
Just out of curiosity, what is preventing you from including this
service? I guess the amount of data would be negligible in comparison to
all the other files you host.

Cheers,
Matthias

On 11/06/2015 12:50 AM, Steven! Ragnarök wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> We don't currently have plans to add support for additional upload types in the near term future, nor are we able to change the allowed upload types for individual projects. If that ever changes, we'll be sure to announce it on our Blog https://github.com/blog
>
> In the meantime, good luck finding an issue tracker that works for your team. If GitHub Issues turns out to be your favorite but for the issue attachment capabilities, maybe it would be worth setting up a dataset uploading service that issue creators can then use to upload and link in their issues.
>
> Are datasets text or binary formatted? About how large can they get?
>
> Thanks,
> Steven!