437639 - create a svn repository for videos and a video.mozilla.com sub domain

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

We are starting to have videos right and left in several projects,like the screencast for firefox 3 or video interviews from events like Fosdem, or promotional videos...

I am seeing these videos being dropped in mozilla.com svn tree and we are probably having subtitled versions of it on mozilla-europe tree too.

I think it would be better to have these videos in a different svn branch and have our links in web pages link to http://video.mozilla.com/foo instead of http://www.mozilla.com/foo, http://www.mozilla-europe.org/foo, http://www.mozilla.jp/foo...

It would also make new checkouts of SVN trees not be so long, just the promotional screencast for firefox 3 is going to be 15MB, this multiplicated by 22 languages that will have their own subtitled version is 330MB, that's a lot of unnecessary downloads for people working on the web parts because we only work on the text files.

thoughts ?

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

We shouldn't be checking-in huge videos into SVN at all. That was done for firefoxflicks, and it about drove me insane. Videos don't need to be version-controlled. Should just get them uploaded to the existing http://videos.mozilla.org/ and use it.

Comment 2

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> We shouldn't be checking-in huge videos into SVN at all. That was done for
> firefoxflicks, and it about drove me insane. Videos don't need to be
> version-controlled. Should just get them uploaded to the existing
> http://videos.mozilla.org/ and use it.
> 

I agree with this

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Me too.  Binaries in version control suck rocks unless they're small images going with a web page.  sftp access to upload the files is probably a better idea.

Comment 4

[chizu]

Putting videos in SVN (separate repo or otherwise) wastes space and makes the repos difficult to deal with. Please utilize videos.mozilla.org as mentioned in the previous comments.

Comment 5

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Putting videos in SVN (separate repo or otherwise) wastes space and makes the
> repos difficult to deal with. Please utilize videos.mozilla.org as mentioned in
> the previous comments.
> 

Do we have sftp access to videos.m.o?