Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: > 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 understand! I'm fine with keeping it as-is now that you explained
that this is intentional.
It would be nice to make things more configurable though, the code is
doing this:
Here is the GNU $package_name home page:
https://gnu.org/s/$package_name/
I'm using 'announce-gen' for several non-GNU projects, and some GNU
projects that doesn't comply with that approach. I think it is simplest
to make both the project name and URL configurable, and hope to propose
a patch eventually.
>> 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)
I support making this the default.
I think the main use-case for release announcements is for human
consumption, and humans usually doesn't want to wait 10+ hours for a
file to become available on the mirrors. This is especially true for a
security-relevant release like the one I just did for libtasn1.
I hope to provide a patch on this, too, eventually, unless someone beats
me to it.
/Simon
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