Oops -- didn't see the "php (bah)" comment. We could host it on OpenShift the same way we host Magazine, or we could try polr.me (which is also open source).
On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 at 18:30 Chaoyi Zha <cydrobolt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You can take a look at http://github.com/cydrobolt/polr. It's been used by many high volume sites for over the past couple of years.
(full disclosure: I wrote Polr)
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016, 5:58 PM Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Greetings.
I thought I would start a bit of discussion on url shorteners.
In the past we had paste.fedoraproject.org output a short url for every
paste using the 'ur1.ca' service. ur1.ca is nice because they are 100%
open source. However, at some point they became very slow, so the
command line 'fpaste' tool would take a long time and then eventually
timeout. So, we disabled that and haven't been doing any short urls for
pastes.
There are however some places where people have requested we use url
shorteners over the years:
* https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/5173
The mailman3 archived-at header link (which is a link to the
hyperkitty archive of a specific post). It's long and ugly like:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/EOIQM6E32PSGAHVYBY5OSFXKDHE33ZCQ/
* https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4450
Short redirects to LiveCD images (including spins)
This could apply to any of the common media we point people to.
* https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4931
fpaste using ur1.ca.
(The use case here is if you have a machine barely on the net so you
can use the fpaste command to paste something, but need to retype that
url into another computer to get someone else to help you look at it,
the short url is much easier to type.
* Other service that uses urls that might be nice to shorten for some
reason. I'm sure we could think of more places they might be handy.
So, options:
1. Just punt and keep going the way we are. We have lived without them
this long.
2. See if we can help ur1.ca and/or if they are fast enough for us now
and just use them for everything. However, if we do, I would like to
talk with them and make sure it's all good, as we might generate a lot
of links if we do every email post.
3. Pick some other url shortener. Personally, I like using one thats
open source and shares our values, but we would just be using it as an
external service, so perhaps we don't care so much. If we pick some
other one we should make sure they can handle our volume, etc.
4. Run one ourself. Note: this is "run" NOT "write". I do not want us
spending developer time writing something like this. There's tons of
them out there. The popular ones are in php (bah), but I am sure we can
pick one that meets our needs if we look. There's even some flask based
ones out there. ( like https://github.com/ugcoder/Py-URL-Shortener )
Thoughts?
kevin
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