On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, sebb wrote:
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:35:48 +0100
From: sebb <seb...@gmail.com>
To: dev@community.apache.org
Subject: Re: Feedback on dist health checker (was: [jira] [Commented]
(COMDEV-248) add /dist/ health issues)
It seems you don't understand the magic ; a 'bad' download
results in a 'bad' checksum ; right?
Yes, I understand that.
However I have worked with sigs and hashes for a while.
Sorry ; I was teasing you a little ...
However what is the average user to make of the page:
https://checker.apache.org/sums/8347323be17d484be69b9fb094bf110993c66c39.html
This presents a huge amount of information, almost all of which will
mean nothing to most people.
... that is just presentation ; look again :-)
https://checker.apache.org/sums/4a23503e9c272eed58c86046a8da737866cd1aff.html
In which case the pages without the META file should probably indicate
that verification was not possible.
Yes, maybe ; I didn't want go overboard (yet :-).
I think there are several potential consumers of the pages.
- people familiar with sigs and hashes who want/need all the detail
- release managers and devs who need to know what to fix
- general public who just want to verify a download
I'm glad to hear that ; I've tried to put the 'general' stuff
near the top-of-page ; the details (for specialists) follow.
Regards,
HPP
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