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Hi all, |
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the tl;dr is that I've set up a new url shortener which is available |
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on https://go.gentoo.org/ currently. It can generate short links like |
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'go.gentoo.org/XXX' or you can create custom persistent links like |
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'go.gentoo.org/arzano/tyrian' or 'go.gentoo.org/infra/hashicorp'. |
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Basically, I'm looking for some quick feedback whether you consider |
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this as useful or don't think you would use it much, to decide whether |
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it's worth offering this service. |
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As mentioned the url-shortener is deployed on https://go.gentoo.org |
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currently. The source code is available at [0]. It's only accessible |
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by Gentoo developers using Gentoo SSO for the authentication. You can |
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log in using your nickname and your ldap password. Basically two use |
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cases are supported: |
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1) Just paste a link and get an automatically shortened url like |
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'go.gentoo.org/XXX'. This is pretty much the normal url shortener |
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functionality. |
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2) You can paste a link and create a custom persistent link using a |
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prefix like 'go.gentoo.org/$prefix/$custom'. Allowed prefixes are the |
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nickname of the developer that is logged in or a project the developer |
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is part of. Thus I for one could create links like |
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'go.gentoo.org/arzano/tyrian' or 'go.gentoo.org/infra/hashicorp'. |
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However, I would e.g. not be able to create |
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'go.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide' as I am not part of the qa project. |
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Only members of the QA team could create that link. That's also the |
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reason I've been coming up with this, as this way every developer / |
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every project would be able to create custom persistent, nice / short |
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links. |
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However, please note that this is just a first beta version yet and |
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it's not meant to be production-ready yet. Please feel free to test it |
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though. In general, I'm looking for some feedback on whether you would |
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be interested in the two functionalities to get a feeling whether it's |
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worth spending time on this / offering this service at all. |
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Also I would be especially interested whether you consider the second |
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functionality as useful. Because if we just want the first |
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functionality, we can simplify this and just use any of the |
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url-shorteners that are already out there, instead of using the |
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solution I have built. |
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/M |
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[0] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/sites/go-gentoo.git/ |
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