FRAME Repository is too big

[burespe1]

The XMI export of the repository has 50 MBs. It has several drawbacks:

• it took 30+ minutes to export (to xmi v2.1, v1.1 was significantly faster and "native" version even faster (and smaller by 20 %)
• large files are not allowed on github see: http://git.io/iEPt8g

solution

• Git Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com might be used
• native export version (neaten) can be used
• repository an be broken down to smaller pieces (i.e. User Needs, Func. Areas, etc.

[burespe1]

Trial with following forms of export: xmi 1.1 (formatted); xmi 2.1 (formatted); native (un-formatted, needs to be formatted manually) were performed with following outcome:

format	time	size	note
native	5 %	80 %	very fast export, smallest file, but just one line of output, needs to be formatted afterwards, not respect packages structure, everything is collated together based on type
xmi 1.1	90 %	90 %	for large models very slow export (0.5hrs) , missing some overall UML info, formatted output
xmi 2.1	100 %	100 %	for large models very slow export (0.5hrs), formatted output

2.1 is better over 1.1 in cross-software import, it is more complex and not really better than 1.1 when importing / exporting to the same tool (when full roundtrip feature is enabled).

resolution

• use xmi 1.1 export with full ea roundtrip option
• break down larger packages to smaller ones when working with them and have task for putting it together (for download).
  this means that FRAME repository needs to be broken down to smaller files => can that be done automatically?

[mertaksac]

i think the "cleaned" version of FRAME Repository - the one labelled 23th of September - was exported in around 5 to 7 minutes, not longer