[arc-discuss] Re: ARC case info broken on OS.o?

[Bart Smaalders]

John Plocher wrote:
> Stephen Lau wrote:
>> Hey John,
>>     Is something broken in the ARC caseinfo
> 
> Yes - Stefan and Bart's 2007/168 PHP5 case had over 6000 files in its 
> materials
> directory. This was causing the web app on OS.o to barf on the size of the
> generated ARC Case homepage, which in turn caused the mirror upload to 
> fail.
> 
> I tar'd and gzip'd the materials/html directory; it should now be 
> ignored by
> the mirror script as being too large (it is a 37Mb .tar, 4.5M gz).
> 
> Aside to Stefan and Bart - 37Mb of spec does not a fasttrack make...
> The ARC (should) focus on higher level architectural intent rather
> than design/implementation artifact lists.

You're welcome to suggest mechanisms; I was repeatedly told that
that the ARC insists on having copies of all the material since
external web pages could change at any time.

Including reference material by reference instead of by value
would save everyone a lot of effort.

- Bart


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