Re: [Bodington-developers] Quotas Implementation

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Jon Maber wrote:
> I think that's neat way of doing it. Better than quotas for people 
> because it means that an individual who contributes to a course area for 
> example is not using their own personal quota but if that person has a 
> "my suite of rooms" resource which only they create personal stuff in, 
> the scheme works just like a personal quota.

That's the plan. For Oxford we won't probably introduce quota except for 
personal areas initially.

> It might be nice if people with 'manage' access saw a prominent 'out of 
> quota' message.

Yep, and your getting close to running out of quota (eg <5% left). The 
problem is where to display this. Ideally you want this to be displayed 
for every resource. I'd like to have an area for resource metadata 
(along with access summary, updated/created time, owners) and put it in 
near the title. But we have run out of space so I think this will have 
to wait.

 > Can people really, really delete uploaded files now
> (rather than mark them as deleted)? That would be essential to be able 
> to recover space and get under quota again.

No. But for the initially implementation quotas are meant just as an 
obstacle to uploading huge amounts of data rather than a precise way to 
place storage capacity. It would be nice/easier to fix this to start 
with but I'm not sure I'll have time.

> Although sysadmins should be allowed to go over quota they ought to be 
> warned that they have done so because they may make it impossible for 
> the managers of the resource to upload any files at all.

Yep. The problem is there are so many ways to upload a file that 
displaying a message saying the resource has gone over quota might be 
difficult.

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