Re: Fwd: [GitHub] At 100% of Git LFS data quota for OpenSC

I would be happy to contribute with money if that would solve the problem. 
Unfortunately paying is not a solution, as for ransomware. The Git LFS 
pricing model is a scam!

The problem is that bandwidth usage is counted for all LFS downloads, 
_including from forks_! Which makes it completely useless other than for 
private repos. This was neatly described already five years ago in "GitHub’s 
Large File Storage is no panacea for Open Source" by Stephane Peter, 
https://medium.com/@megastep/github-s-large-file-storage-is-no-panacea-for-open-source-quite-the-opposite-12c0e16a9a91.

The conclusion for OpenSC is that using LFS on github is not an option. 
Assuming that migrating from github is out of the question, we have the 
following options:
1. Investigate if splitted dmg files can be created (with hdiutil segment, 
files named xxx.dmgpart) and mounted as a single disk image without the need 
to recombine.
2. Using an archive format (such as zip) for splitting the files in smaller 
chunks, letting the user recreate the dmg before use.
3. Storing large files on an external provider and using scripts or git 
hooks to download them after repo checkout.

pCloud has 10 GB free storage (https://www.pcloud.com/)

Zoltan Kelemen

-----Original Message----- 
From: Douglas E Engert
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:10 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Opensc-devel] Fwd: [GitHub] At 100% of Git LFS data quota for 
OpenSC

I too do not make any money from OpenSC. I retired 5 year ago.

It looks like the problem is with using LFS a few days ago, to handle
the large MacOS DMG file.

Frank said: "Does anyone have a better idea?"

Short term would be to pay $5 for this month.

Long term would be find a different way to distribute the MacOS DMG like 
some free FTP site.
(I don't know of any.) I would not expect an linux distro to host a MacOS 
distribution.
Does Apple have such a site?

Or split the DMG up in to smaller pieces.

Make MacOS users build their own DMG.

Don't build more then 20 times a month. But LFS usage may also include 
people
downloading the DMG file, so that that may make free LFS completely useless.



On 10/26/2020 12:36 PM, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> Le dim. 25 oct. 2020 à 00:33, Douglas E Engert <[email protected]> a 
> écrit :
>>
>> Yes. someone pay the $5/month. Someone who is making a living to work on 
>> OpenSC.
>
> I do not make any money from OpenSC :-)
>
> I now received:
> Git LFS has been disabled on the organization OpenSC because you’ve
> exceeded your data plan by at least 150%. Please purchase additional
> data packs to cover your bandwidth and storage usage:
>
>    https://github.com/organizations/OpenSC/billing/data/upgrade
>
> Current usage as of 26 Oct 2020 04:40PM UTC:
>
>    Bandwidth: 1.51 GB / 1 GB (151%)
>    Storage: 0.76 GB / 1 GB (76%)
>

-- 

  Douglas E. Engert  <[email protected]>



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