Re: gnome-user-docs and gnome-getting-started-docs migrated to GitLab

Shaun McCance <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 16:29 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> On 2018-03-28 15:53, Petr Kovar wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:47:39 +0200
> > > Where are the release tarballs made available now?
> > 
> > Nothing has changed in the way we release and deliver tarballs.
> > This
> > migration is just about the repo and issue tracker.
> 
> Ok, it's probably just me who didn't do it the right way.
> 
> At http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-user-docs/ there were handy
> links 
> to the released tarballs, and I have downloaded that way a few times
> and 
> then uploaded to Ubuntu.
> 
> So the somewhat stupid question would then be: How should I have
> done 
> instead? :)

Are you referring to the download links for tags? Those aren't actually
the release tarballs. They're snapshots of what you'd get with a `git
clone`. Release tarballs are made with `make distcheck` and uploaded to
ftp.gnome.org.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-user-docs/
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