Re: [matplotlib-devel] Github Downloads going away...

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 2012/12/16 9:21 AM, Damon McDougall wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Jason Grout
> <jas...@cr...> wrote:
>> On 12/14/12 10:55 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>>> sourceforge's horror of an interface.
>>
>> I'll second that.  Every time I go to Sourceforge, I have to figure out
>> how in the world to download what I want (and I have to figure out which
>> things *not* to click on too).
>
> Ok sounds like there is a reasonable amount of resistance towards Sourceforge.
>
> Eric, when you suggest that NumFocus could 'provide hosting directly',
> do you mean they would have the physical hardware to host the files,
> or are you suggesting they provide the finances to seek hosting
> elsewhere?

I was thinking that perhaps NumFocus would be running a server that 
could provide the hosting.  Funding for an external service is also 
possible, though, and might make more sense.

>
> In the GitHub blog post, they suggest using S3. We could try that.
> It's fairly inexpensive and the first year is free (within monthly
> bandwidth limits). We could try it for a year and see how that pans
> out? I'm not entirely sure how the Amazon stuff works but I've heard
> good things about it.
>

The github page https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/downloads shows 
44,000 downloads for the 1.2 tarball, so I don't think the 20,000 
downloads per month limit of the free tier would work.

Eric