Michael,

Adding redirects once the service is down is a viable option, you can push
those images to static.g.o and we can add a redirect afterwards to make
sure stuff won't break. Let me know whether that works for you, thanks!

On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 18:02 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 9 2022 at 05:44:04 PM +0100, Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org>
> wrote:
> > With that in mind and unless anyone within the community objects with
> > a good rationale we'll be retiring the service by the 31th of March.
>
> Sadly I have images for appstream metadata hosted here (seemed like a
> good idea back in 2014, oops), meaning once it goes down, older
> releases will no longer display images in GNOME Software if distros
> rebuild their appstream metadata. Potentially affected apps:
> five-or-more, four-in-a-row, gnome-calculator, gnome-chess,
> gnome-klotski, gnome-mahjongg, gnome-mines, gnome-nibbles,
> gnome-robots, gnome-sudoku, gnome-taquin, gnome-tetravex, hitori,
> iagno, lightsoff, quadrapassel, swell-foop, tali. These images are very
> stale, so hopefully some apps have refreshed their images since I
> created them, but the rest will break. I'll go through them all soon
> and migrate all images to GitLab to ensure that GNOME 42 releases will
> be OK, but of course there is no way to fix older releases.
>
> I also had a bunch of tarballs hosted here too, but it looks like
> release team is no longer using them due to infrastructure
> improvements, so that's no problem.
>
> Michael
>
>
> --
Cheers,
Andrea

Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat,
GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

Homepage: https://people.gnome.org/~av
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