Conley Owens

Is this still in the works?

The former. I'm imagining it would be analogous to how you configure alternate DBs, except using standards for file storage. https://scancodeio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/scancodeio-settings.html#database

Ideally what I would like is just to specify a URL to a google storage bucket in the config. If I understand correctly, there are a number of services that...

I'm not sure I get the distinctions in the options, but returning immediately with a project created seems to make the most sense...the download could just be the first stage...

By "The current timezone", do you mean the timezone specified in the settings? Why not just let the client display the time according to the local timezone?

The server serves up UTC. The client then displays it according to the local timezone (i.e., using javascript). `new Date(utcTimestamp).toString()` would be one example that works in chrome. Unfortunately the...

Times are still being shown in UTC: 

I would like to store nothing more than the report and associated metadata. Ideally, the only thing that would need to be persistent would be the DB.

Furthermore, I'm concerned that even with a large disk, we will fill up local storage with images and the tool will just stop working unless we add some sophisticated way...

Correct. I would like it if after a run there were nothing additional saved on disk (only in the DB). This also includes the report files if possible. Are these...