Screenshots in charm READMEs (policy request)

[Charles Butler]

Nick,

Why add a complex requirement such as validating image hosting?

Why can't I use my Dropbox account for example?

On Feb 2, 2015 8:32 AM, "Nick Veitch" <nick.veitch at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> I like the idea in general. We may want to be careful as to allowed
> domains though, (I think imgur generates specific urls per image, so
> they can't be swapped out, but not all sites do) which may increase
> the overhead on implementing it. I think you would definitely need to
> add some text specifying that the images must be their own!
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Jorge O. Castro <jorge at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Rick H. mentioned to me that if a charm has a Markdown image snippet,
like say:
> >
> > ![alt-text](https://imgur.com/blah)
> >
> > ... then jujucharms.com will render the screenshot.
> >
> > Clearly this is a nice easy way to allow charm authors to add
> > screenshots to their charm in the store, however, since we're serving
> > the entire charm store over https the image URLs need to be served
> > over https, so I would like to add the following to charm store
> > policy:
> >
> > "You can add screenshots to your readme using standard markdown
> > format(link), however in order to be rendered in the store, the images
> > must be served over https",
> >
> > We recommend something like imgur that has https and a CDN that makes
> > it dead easy for people to host images. Over time Rick plans to enable
> > us to host images and do fancier things, but the intent of this is
> > just to allow images for people with little effort on the backend
> > engineering.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
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