On Mon, Sep 10, 2018, at 1:06 PM, Ian Stapleton Cordasco wrote:

It seems silly that we're not also considering the portions of the world with terrible internet when making this decision. Giant sdists make their lives orders of magnitude worse for the benefit of maybe 20-30 people who tend to use the tests.

We should certainly consider internet speeds across the world in general, but I don't think it's that important to this particular discussion. In most cases, users who just want to install and use a package can get it as a wheel, so what we do with sdists doesn't matter to them. And there aren't many projects where adding tests and docs makes an order of magnitude difference to the archive size.