Re: Intent to retire people.gnome.org (31th of March)

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Michael,

Adding redirects once the service is down is a viable option, you can push
those images to static.g.o and we can add a redirect afterwards to make
sure stuff won't break. Let me know whether that works for you, thanks!

On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 18:02 Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 9 2022 at 05:44:04 PM +0100, Andrea Veri <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > With that in mind and unless anyone within the community objects with
> > a good rationale we'll be retiring the service by the 31th of March.
>
> Sadly I have images for appstream metadata hosted here (seemed like a
> good idea back in 2014, oops), meaning once it goes down, older
> releases will no longer display images in GNOME Software if distros
> rebuild their appstream metadata. Potentially affected apps:
> five-or-more, four-in-a-row, gnome-calculator, gnome-chess,
> gnome-klotski, gnome-mahjongg, gnome-mines, gnome-nibbles,
> gnome-robots, gnome-sudoku, gnome-taquin, gnome-tetravex, hitori,
> iagno, lightsoff, quadrapassel, swell-foop, tali. These images are very
> stale, so hopefully some apps have refreshed their images since I
> created them, but the rest will break. I'll go through them all soon
> and migrate all images to GitLab to ensure that GNOME 42 releases will
> be OK, but of course there is no way to fix older releases.
>
> I also had a bunch of tarballs hosted here too, but it looks like
> release team is no longer using them due to infrastructure
> improvements, so that's no problem.
>
> Michael
>
>
> --
Cheers,
Andrea

Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat,
GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

Homepage: https://people.gnome.org/~av

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<div dir=3D"auto">Michael,</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"aut=
o">Adding redirects once the service is down is a viable option, you can pu=
sh those images to static.g.o and we can add a redirect afterwards to make =
sure stuff won&#39;t break. Let me know whether that=C2=A0works for you, th=
anks!</div><div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gm=
ail_attr">On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 18:02 Michael Catanzaro &lt;<a href=3D"mail=
to:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><bloc=
kquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-=
width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(20=
4,204,204)">On Wed, Mar 9 2022 at 05:44:04 PM +0100, Andrea Veri &lt;<a hre=
f=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt; <br>
wrote:<br>
&gt; With that in mind and unless anyone within the community objects with =
<br>
&gt; a good rationale we&#39;ll be retiring the service by the 31th of Marc=
h.<br>
<br>
Sadly I have images for appstream metadata hosted here (seemed like a <br>
good idea back in 2014, oops), meaning once it goes down, older <br>
releases will no longer display images in GNOME Software if distros <br>
rebuild their appstream metadata. Potentially affected apps: <br>
five-or-more, four-in-a-row, gnome-calculator, gnome-chess, <br>
gnome-klotski, gnome-mahjongg, gnome-mines, gnome-nibbles, <br>
gnome-robots, gnome-sudoku, gnome-taquin, gnome-tetravex, hitori, <br>
iagno, lightsoff, quadrapassel, swell-foop, tali. These images are very <br=
>
stale, so hopefully some apps have refreshed their images since I <br>
created them, but the rest will break. I&#39;ll go through them all soon <b=
r>
and migrate all images to GitLab to ensure that GNOME 42 releases will <br>
be OK, but of course there is no way to fix older releases.<br>
<br>
I also had a bunch of tarballs hosted here too, but it looks like <br>
release team is no longer using them due to infrastructure <br>
improvements, so that&#39;s no problem.<br>
<br>
Michael<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signature" =
data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Cheers,</div><div>=
Andrea</div><div><br></div><div>Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat,<br><=
/div><div>GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,<br></div><div>Former GNOME=
 Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,</div><div>GNOME Foundation Member=
ship &amp; Elections Committee Chairman</div><div><br></div><div>Homepage: =
<a href=3D"https://people.gnome.org/~av" target=3D"_blank">https://people.g=
nome.org/~av</a></div></div></div>

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