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Drupal.org customizations
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7.x-3.x-dev
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13 Oct 2011 at 03:39 UTC
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20 May 2019 at 11:38 UTC
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Comment #1
stevethewebguy commentedI thinks that mabybe just be easier to allow .rar and .zip, so users could share some format that's not invented today 5 years from now when someone thinks it would be nice to add a different file formatster.
Comment #2
greggles@christefano - it has "odt ods odp" - why would you need anything else? ;)
@stevethewebguy - If we embraced another zipping format I'd really prefer .7z (Free and free and produces similarly small files). That said, I'm not a fan of compressed archive files on g.d.o since it would just be used to mask the actual contents. I'm also not a fan of .zip since it can be used to trick ie mime types.
For now I made g.d.o a copy of d.o's settings. We should try to be relatively consistent in the functionality we provide.
So, d.o webmaster team, what's our standard here?
Comment #3
christefano commentedCan we get some more eyes on this? I think it's unfortunate that Drupal.org doesn't support formats that have been used by the business world since 2007.
Comment #4
christefano commented#937002: Unable to upload a document. has been marked as a duplicate.
Comment #5
tvn commentedComment #6
dddave commentedIs there a good reason not to do it?
Comment #7
avpadernoComment #8
gregglesThis makes sense to me to do. Since there's no patch I think it can/should be a status of "Needs review".
Comment #9
avpadernoThe allowed extensions are defined in features/drupalorg_content_types/drupalorg_content_types.features.field_instance.inc, which means that a patch is necessary, to add more file extensions.