On 03/28/2013 03:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 14:24 +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> As aid to people quickly scanning email, please markup URLs >> so they're clickable, like: >> >> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/ >> https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/ (mirror (1 hour lag)) > > This isn't a bug, it's a feature ;) We intentionally don't provide > easily-clickable download locations in the announcement email to try and > ensure only people who are at least committed enough to click on (and > hopefully read) the testing instructions page download the images. We > don't want TC and RC images in the hands of drive-by downloaders, that > isn't what they're for; we structure the pages and announcements to try > and gently encourage this. The reason I wasn't including these paths was because each test page uses slightly different download links, so I thought it would scale better to use the redirection. But looking at the pages, everything is under https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/ , so I was thinking about putting something like this in the announcement: --- Please see the following pages for download links (including delta ISOs) and testing instructions. Normally https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC3/ should provide the fastest download, but https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC3/ is available as a mirror (with an approximately 1 hour lag) in case of trouble. Installation Test Results: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test Base Test Results: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test Desktop Test Results: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test --- Personally I don't think we should be going out of our way to discourage drive-bys unless bandwidth is in short supply and they're sucking too much of it away from the real testers. Drive-bys could become real testers later.
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