[libvirt] [PATCH] docs: stop advertizing FTP or HTTP for downloads of libvirt

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:51:22AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 16:42 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > docs: stop advertizing FTP or HTTP for downloads of libvirt
> 
> We never advertised HTTP downloads, we only had an HTTPS URL
> incorrectly labeled as "HTTP". So s/or HTTP // in the subject.

The text later on says that it is available over HTTP, even if we
typoed the link on this page.

> 
> > On the modern internet it is not credible to continue to advertize
> > software downloads over unencrypted connections. Even if users could
> > theoretically use GPG to verify the signatures, not all our downloads
> > and signed
> 
> s/and/are/
> 
> Also, is that so? We should fix that.

You mean fix that fact that not everything is signed ?

> > @@ -27,8 +27,7 @@
> >          <tr>
> >            <td>libvirt</td>
> >            <td>
> > -            <a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/">ftp</a>
> > -            <a href="https://libvirt.org/sources/">https</a>
> > +            <a href="https://libvirt.org/sources/">libvirt</a>
> 
> That's... A whole lot of "libvirt"s in the page after the change.
> 
> I don't have brilliant ideas on how to improve upon that, though.
> Perhaps use "libvirt.org" instead of "libvirt"? Food for thought.

I think it is ok - some of the other entries are "pypi" and "cpan".
It is just a short nickname for the site hosting it. If people want
the full URL they can see it in mouse-over.


Regards,
Daniel
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