Continued maintenance of the UbuntuHashes wiki page

[Peter Matulis]

On 07/09/2015 02:42 PM, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> There's an outstanding bug about how long it takes to update the
> UbuntuHashes wiki page maintained at:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes
> 
> Steve Langasek points out: "The cdimage team considers this wiki page
> redundant with the gpg-signed SUMS files that we already publish via
> releases.ubuntu.com and cdimage.ubuntu.com."
> 
> Thoughts on halting maintenance and pointing people to the current
> SUMS files published in the repos?
>

We've talked about this before [1].

IMO, a community wiki is not the place to store security hashes. Let's
use the industry standard of using those found on mirrors instead
(example: [2]) and rid ourselves of this reoccurring mini-nightmare once
and for all.

[1]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2014-September/019082.html
[2]: http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.04/MD5SUMS

pM