Haddock uploading from 'maintain' page hangs

[Mikolaj]

First it complains that gzipped archive is not accepted. Then, when I ungzip and send a 58M .tar file, the upload attempt never ends.

Tested with https://hackage.haskell.org/package/LambdaHack-0.11.0.0/maintain/docs and https://hackage.haskell.org/package/LambdaHack-0.10.3.0/maintain/docs

[gbaz]

I'm pretty sure we (deliberately) have a 50M upload limit.

[Mikolaj]

Gzipped it was 4MB. Could gzip be accepted?

[gbaz]

can you confirm that this fails also when uploading by using the command line? if not, then this is a bug we should fix, if so, then we need to think much more carefully about our architecture -- the issue is not just preventing a lot of bandwidth -- its that we really don't want to encourage storing large files on hackage, and unless we fix our backend store to only operate on compressed docs (i'd need to dig around to see if thats feasible) then accepting gzip only for transport seems unwise, etc.

[Mikolaj]

Via commandline it always works fine (sent as gzip).

[gbaz]

ok, then its a real bug :-)