On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list <bug-gnulib@gnu.org> wrote: > Announce-gen generate this snippet: > > > Here is the GNU libtasn1 home page: > > https://gnu.org/s/libtasn1/ > > Why? Shouldn't we use the canonical URL in the announcement? I think > the above just looks ugly when the real URL is: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/
So you prefer "software" in place of "s" and the addition of the "www." prefix? To be honest, I prefer neither, seeing the "www." prefix as unnecessary fluff and "software" as "obvious", so unnecessary to spell out. In all such messaging, keeping the text as concise as is reasonably possible feels like a good goal, but if you find enough value in using a canonical URL, I won't object. > I can see the utility to shorten in some places, but I think the first > URL to the project in the announcements should use the canonical URL. > Any objections to changing this? > > README-release says: > > > * Wait a few minutes (maybe up to 30?) and then use the release URLs to > > download all tarball/signature pairs and use gpg --verify to ensure > > that they're all valid. > > I found today that this is problematic -- I waited for around 4 hours > until I gave up and changed the announcement to use > ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/ URLs instead. > > There is mirror status available -- > https://download.savannah.gnu.org/mirmon/allgnu/ -- and some sites are > up to 24 hours late. > > The https://ftpmirror.gnu.org redirector also does not seem to work very > well, it can pick a rather stale mirror or a currently offline mirror -- > right now I get redirected to https://ftp.wayne.edu/gnu/ which is not > answering. And then you can't get redirected to another mirror if you > retry the ftpmirror.gnu.org URL again. > > I can live with manually doing > s,ftpmirror.gnu.org/PROJECT,ftp.gnu.org/gnu/PROJECT, while preparing > release notes, but I wonder if we should just give up on using > ftpmirrors.gnu.org URLs in the announcements? I've remedied that situation by configuring announcements to use the URLs that work promptly. E.g., for diffutils, it generated this: Here are the compressed sources: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.11.tar.gz (3.3MB) https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.11.tar.xz (1.9MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.11.tar.gz.sig https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.11.tar.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html As you can imagine, I wouldn't mind making that the default. I set this in cfg.mk: # Use the direct link. This is guaranteed to work immediately, while # it can take a while for the faster mirror links to become usable. url_dir_list = https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$(PACKAGE)
