web server for appstream metadata screenshots

[Yuri Chornoivan]

написане Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:27:23 +0300, Burkhard Lück  
<lueck at hube-lueck.de>:

> Am Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2016, 12:45:13 CEST schrieb Nicolás Alvarez:
>> 2016-06-08 8:33 GMT-03:00 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org>:
>> > Am Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2016, 13:10:04 CEST schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
>> >> Hey,
>> >>
>> >> I've been adding appstream metadata to one of the apps I maintain,  
>> among
>> >> that are also screenshots, in the form of a URL. That means that I  
>> have
>> >> to
>> >> put the screenshots on a webserver.
>> >>
>> >> Do we already have a canonical location for these screenshots? If  
>> not,
>> >> let's create one before we get people hosting them on imgur, their
>> >> private webserver or their router-behind-a-dsl-line. :)
>> >
>> > Good idea, also when it comes to long-term availability of referenced
>> > images>
>> > :)
>> >
>> > It might make sense to reuse/share the screenshots with the ones used  
>> for
>> > the KDE app catalog we have at kde.org/applications/. For consistency  
>> and
>> > for efficiency.
>> >
>> > Not sure though what a stable url would be like, given people  
>> planning to
>> > rework kde.org (and thus those app catalog pages), so perhaps relying  
>> on
>> > the current screenshot urls used by kde.org/applications is not  
>> perfect.
>> The screenshots on kde.org/applications are stored in SVN and they are
>> the main reason why I couldn't migrate that website to Git. I would
>> prefer if you don't add even more there...
>
> www/sites/www/screenshots (svn) has 176 pngs
>
> websites/edu-kde-org/ (git) has 1287 pngs
>
> master kf5 / doc[s] (git) folders have  2079 pngs
>
> master kde4 / doc[s] (git) folders have 1702 pngs
>
> I do not understand why the 176 pngs in www/sites/www/screenshots are a
> problem for migration to git

Hi,

I might be wrong, but is the hotlinking to Phabricator/Git files  
(screenshots in this case) a good thing?

Best regards,
Yuri