Migrate /data/uploads/publisher and /data/uploads/support-api to Asset Manager

[chrislo]

There are two paths on the NFS mount that include assets. We should see if they can be moved to Asset Manager

• /data/uploads/publisher
• /data/uploads/support-api

[chrisroos]

I've asked the following question in the govuk-developers Slack channel:

Hi folks. Who knows about the support-api and publisher directories in the shared asset-master NFS mount (e.g. /data/uploads/support-api/feedex_2018-01-24_2018-01-29_done_change-date-practical-driving-test.csv and /data/uploads/publisher/reports/edition_churn.csv)? We’ve written files to both directories in the last 2 days but I can’t see any public requests for those files in Kibana.

[floehopper]

While it would be good to migrate these to Asset Manager if appropriate, I'm not convinced it should be one of our immediate priorities.

[chrisroos]

Liz L has pointed out that the publisher reports (in /data/uploads/publisher/reports/) are available for download in the publisher admin - https://publisher.publishing.service.gov.uk/reports.

[chrisroos]

It sounds as though the data in /data/uploads/support-api/ might be generated in feedex and links to it are possibly sent by email. I'm waiting to find out more about this, though.

[chrisroos]

I think I now understand the data that's written to /data/uploads/support-api/. It's generated when you click "Export as CSV" on a search results page from https://support.publishing.service.gov.uk/anonymous_feedback. An email is sent containing a link to this file which is then served by the AnonymousFeedback::ExportRequestsController in support-api.

[chrisroos]

In summary, while I can imagine these type of assets being served from Asset Manager at some point, I don't think we need to worry about it anytime soon.

[chrislo]

I'm going to move this issue out of the whitehall non-attachment assets milestone (https://github.com/alphagov/asset-manager/milestone/6) as these assets don't have anything to do with whitehall as it turns out.