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Improvement: Stop re-uploading bundled cover images to S3 on every project create

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@manshi-n is already working on this.

Since Oct 9, 2026.

Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
Half a day
Newbie friendliness
50/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
python, typescript
Domain
backend, frontend

Research direction

Start in apps/web/components/projects/create/root.tsx around lines 72-79, where the upload runs on every project create, then check needsUpload in apps/web/helpers/cover-image.helper.ts near line 189 to see when a bundled static cover is already treated as needing no upload. The backend key generation is at apps/api/plane/app/views/asset/v2.py line 389. Done means a project created with a bundled cover makes no new S3 object, while uploaded covers still work. The issue leaves open whether to skip the upload or hash the bytes, so confirm the approach with a maintainer first.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

What's happening

  • Every project create uploads one of the 30 bundled covers (apps/web/app/assets/cover-images/) to S3 under a new random UUID key
  • Same file, new S3 object, every time
  • asset/v2.py:389: asset_key = f"{workspace.id}/{uuid.uuid4().hex}-{name}"

Scale of waste (rough math)

  • Say 2,000 teams on Cloud
  • Say 3 projects per team = 6,000 projects
  • ~50KB per cover × 6,000 = ~300MB of duplicate covers
  • Only 30 unique files exist — 6,000 objects store 30 images

Fix

  • If cover is local_static, skip the upload
  • Store the static path directly — the app already renders static paths as-is (getCoverImageDisplayURL)
  • Or: sha256(bytes) as the S3 key instead of uuid4(), so identical files dedupe

Files

  • apps/web/components/projects/create/root.tsx:72-79 — upload always runs on create
  • apps/web/helpers/cover-image.helper.ts:189 — needsUpload rule
  • apps/api/plane/app/views/asset/v2.py:389 — random key per upload

Just a small bug i noticed, not much but can save small s3 cost in cloud version

Let me know if this issue can be taken, would like to raise a pr

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