Re: [Gimp-developer] Updating the website for all the broken download links?

["Michael Schumacher" <schumaml gmx de>]

> Von: "Sam Gleske" <sam mxracer gmail com>

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I've checked the testing website with my commit to fix the download
> > links to the new URLs. All looked ok, so I cherry-picked to master.
> > Would be great to have this rolled out to production, because right
> > now our website just gives a bunch of dead links for getting GIMP.
> > That's not good and could drive users away to go pick GIMP up from
> > some possibly bad source.

We used the http:// links as the main targets, and thos will still work. And I think that we will have to use 
the links to the torrents as the defaults, as those will finally use all the available mirrors.

> > Also are all our mirror admins aware we changed the source of our main
> > download? Because if they have scripts to sync with our FTP, then they
> > will never relay properly our new releases.

If we only knew who all those admins are :)
There is no address list, but one can probably be created by digging through the gimp-web bugs in Bugzilla 
and extracting the addresses for ftp mirrors bugs.

> As I mentioned in the past the offer is still open for me to QA the GIMP
> website frontend for dead links and generate a report.  I didn't ever get
> approval from any of the core devs so I didn't run any front end tests.

Xenu's Link sleuth (http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html) didn't have any noticeable effect on the 
server (even the aging old one), so I don't see anything that would prevent you from running your link 
checker.

Please give it a go and we'll have a look at the results.


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Michael
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