[Development] Decrease amounth of delivered src packages

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2017 15:11:49 PST Mathias Hasselmann 
wrote:
> That's a somewhat limited point of view. Yes, xz archives are slightly
> smaller, but to be honest: In the days of 4K video streaming saving
> 100MiB of download size doesn't seem as important as it was.

There are still people with bad or slow connections.

> Is it worth to spend 10 additional minutes per CI cycle just to save our
> users a very few seconds of download time?

Wait, CI cycle?

I thought we were talking about releases only, which are final as well as 
snapshot packages. Why is the CI creating tarballs?

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