Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] docs: Use CDNJS, update JavaScript libraries

On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 09:48 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:12:39AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > We're carrying around embedded copies of a few JavaScript libraries > > for use in our homepage, and we've been unforgivably bad at keeping > > them up to date. > > > > Instead of serving JavaScript from libvirt.org, use CDNJS so that > > users will get better performance and the load on our Web server > > will decrease (win-win!); at the same time, move from the positively > > ancient versions we're currently using to the freshest ones > > available. > > I'm in favour of updating the code of course, but I'd like to keep it > self-contained on our own site, certainly not support cloudflare. Why? CDNJS is a completely open source project that just so happens to be hosted on, and sponsored by, CloudFlare.

Including minimized JavaScript files in release archives as we're doing right now is also pretty sketchy, since it's basically the same as shipping pre-built binaries instead of the corresponding sources. Debian has a fairly strict policy against it, which is how I came to realized it was an issue in the first place, but I'd be surprised if other distributions were happy with the situation.

We're only using JavaScript for the fancy blog roll on the homepage and global search drop-down menu anyway, both of which are only relevant to libvirt.org and should be scrapped when installing documentation on the end user's machine. I'm working on a follow-up series that does just that.