On 25 January 2018 at 18:46, Henk P. Penning <penn...@uu.nl> wrote: > 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 :-)
"This file is bad" - not strictly true. It may be OK; it's just there's no proof that it is. >>>>> >>>>> 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. I think the page will just overwhelm the general public. They just need an OK/NAK response. With pointers to more detail if they want it. > Regards, > > HPP > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ _ > Henk P. Penning, ICT-beta R Uithof MG-403 _/ \_ > Faculty of Science, Utrecht University T +31 30 253 4106 / \_/ \ > Leuvenlaan 4, 3584CE Utrecht, NL F +31 30 253 4553 \_/ \_/ > http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~penni101/ M penn...@uu.nl \_/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
