From berrange at redhat.com Thu Apr  4 06:13:28 2019
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From: =?utf-8?q?Daniel_P=2E_Berrang=C3=A9_=3Cberrange_at_redhat=2Ecom=3E?=
To: devel at lists.libvirt.org
Subject: Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] docs: stop advertizing FTP or HTTP for
 downloads of libvirt
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:13:22 +0100
Message-ID: <20190404101322.GQ10471@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: 50369499dfb57268c800c6fbce65374fe00f37ed.camel@redhat.com

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On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:51:22AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 16:42 +0100, Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 wrote:
> > docs: stop advertizing FTP or HTTP for downloads of libvirt
> =

> We never advertised HTTP downloads, we only had an HTTPS URL
> incorrectly labeled as "HTTP". So s/or HTTP // in the subject.

The text later on says that it is available over HTTP, even if we
typoed the link on this page.

> =

> > On the modern internet it is not credible to continue to advertize
> > software downloads over unencrypted connections. Even if users could
> > theoretically use GPG to verify the signatures, not all our downloads
> > and signed
> =

> s/and/are/
> =

> Also, is that so? We should fix that.

You mean fix that fact that not everything is signed ?

> > @@ -27,8 +27,7 @@
> >          <tr>
> >            <td>libvirt</td>
> >            <td>
> > -            <a href=3D"ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/">ftp</a>
> > -            <a href=3D"https://libvirt.org/sources/">https</a>
> > +            <a href=3D"https://libvirt.org/sources/">libvirt</a>
> =

> That's... A whole lot of "libvirt"s in the page after the change.
> =

> I don't have brilliant ideas on how to improve upon that, though.
> Perhaps use "libvirt.org" instead of "libvirt"? Food for thought.

I think it is ok - some of the other entries are "pypi" and "cpan".
It is just a short nickname for the site hosting it. If people want
the full URL they can see it in mouse-over.


Regards,
Daniel
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