id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	resolution	keywords	cc	parents
5392	Add ability to disable uploads of media type while retaining existing media of that type	ayleph		"Per a discussion in #382, I think it would be nice to be able to disable further uploads of a particular media type without having to delete all the existing media of that type. For example, let's suppose I run an instance with multiple users and people have been posting awesome cat videos. Eventually I get a notice that my VPS is running low on disk space, and I want to disable further video uploads. But I don't want to delete the existing videos!

If I were to disable the video plugin entirely, then existing videos would fail to load or lead to crashes, based on the traceback reported in #382. So instead, I'd like to have some kind of per-plugin directive that lets me keep the media type enabled while disabling future uploads.

I'm thinking something like below.

{{{
 [plugin_spec]
+# Prevent users from uploading new media of this type?
+disable_upload = boolean(default=False)
+
 # Should we keep the original file?
 keep_original = boolean(default=False)
}}}"	enhancement	new	minor		programming		disable,upload,media