[tor-bugs] #8485 [GetTor]: Gettor: TBB too big now for Gmail

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#8485: Gettor: TBB too big now for Gmail
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 Reporter:  mo        |          Owner:  mo      
     Type:  defect    |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  critical  |      Milestone:          
Component:  GetTor    |        Version:          
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Comment(by mrphs):

 The idea was to give user options to choose how to receive the package.
 #8542
 so ppl from China should be able to get it from mirrors as Runa mentioned.

 The amazing thing about Google Drive is that we can have a unique URL for
 every single request. The idea is to fetch the latest bundle from Tor dist
 and upload it to Google Drive *for every single request*.

 But of course, it has it's own problems. For instance, every package we
 want to send is ~40MB and we'll run out of space as soon as we receive 250
 requests.

 The solution is to have like 10 accounts and randomly switch between them.
 There we can handle 2500 requests at a short time. and we can remove the
 uploaded files after 2hrs or so. to make sure there's always enough free
 space.

 and the whole idea of this Google Drive thing came from SiNA's code:
 https://github.com/mrphs/Tor-XMPP-Bot

 and if someone's got time to steal my idea, please do! All I care is to
 have GetTor back to ppl who need it.

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