[Clipart] Bzip archives?

[Jon Phillips]

Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>You think that there should just be a quick contact that links to
>>the main mailing list page?
> 
> 
> I've been wondering myself what the best approach is to this.  From
> the random end-user's perspective, it'd be nice to have a no-fuss way
> to send a comment without signing up for any mailing lists.  However,
> I don't think we want to open the mailing list to the floodgates of
> spam by mailto: linking it and allowing non-subscriber posts.  That
> would significantly reduce the list's usefulness.  Perhaps a contact
> web form that sends mail to the list (similar to the way screenshot
> upload does)?
> 

I think that might be a good solution right now. We just have to figure out a 
way to make a barrier high enought to keep out the spammers.

>>Yes, I thought about the bzip archive...I made one just now, but
>>jonadab, I need you to chmod 775 the folder you created for 0.10 
> 
> 
> Oh, sorry about that oversight.  I thought I'd done that, but
> obviously I hadn't.  It's fixed now.
> 

its cool...

>>in the downloads folder. The bzip2 for now is here:
>>
>>     http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/openclipart-0.10.tar.bz2
>>
>>Jonadab, if you want to move that into that folder and update the
>>download page, 
> 
> 
> For now I did ln ../openclipart-0.10.tar.bz2 openclipart-0.10.tar.bz2
> And the directory is group-writable now.

Thanks!

>>or if you just 775 that folder 0.10, I can make those changes for
>>the world to see...
>>
>>Good?
> 
> 
> Do we want to roll .tar.bz2 creation into the release procedure?
> 

I think that is a good thing...agree.


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