On 03/28/2013 03:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 14:24 +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> As aid to people quickly scanning email, please markup URLs
> so they're clickable, like:
>
>
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/
>
https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/ (mirror (1 hour lag))
This isn't a bug, it's a feature ;) We intentionally don't provide
easily-clickable download locations in the announcement email to try and
ensure only people who are at least committed enough to click on (and
hopefully read) the testing instructions page download the images. We
don't want TC and RC images in the hands of drive-by downloaders, that
isn't what they're for; we structure the pages and announcements to try
and gently encourage this.
The reason I wasn't including these paths was because each test page
uses slightly different download links, so I thought it would scale
better to use the redirection. But looking at the pages, everything is
under
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/ , so I was thinking
about putting something like this in the announcement:
---
Please see the following pages for download links (including delta ISOs)
and testing instructions. Normally
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC3/
should provide the fastest download, but
https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC3/
is available as a mirror (with an approximately 1 hour lag) in case of
trouble.
Installation Test Results:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
Base Test Results:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test
Desktop Test Results:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test
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Personally I don't think we should be going out of our way to discourage
drive-bys unless bandwidth is in short supply and they're sucking too
much of it away from the real testers. Drive-bys could become real
testers later.