web server for appstream metadata screenshots

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimecres, 8 de juny de 2016, a les 19:32:32 CEST, Yuri Chornoivan va 
escriure:
> 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?

Nobody suggested that, right?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Best regards,
> Yuri