web server for appstream metadata screenshots

[Nicolás Alvarez]

2016-06-08 13:32 GMT-03:00 Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net>:
> 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>:
>>> >
>>> > 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?

No, and we have warned people who do this, and even blocked requests
when they didn't remove the hotlinking.

But where are they being hotlinked here?

-- 
Nicolás