On 12/8/20 3:55 PM, Max Magorsch wrote: > Hi all, > > the tl;dr is that I've set up a new url shortener which is available > on https://go.gentoo.org/ currently. It can generate short links like > 'go.gentoo.org/XXX' or you can create custom persistent links like > 'go.gentoo.org/arzano/tyrian' or 'go.gentoo.org/infra/hashicorp'. > Basically, I'm looking for some quick feedback whether you consider > this as useful or don't think you would use it much, to decide whether > it's worth offering this service. > > As mentioned the url-shortener is deployed on https://go.gentoo.org > currently. The source code is available at [0]. It's only accessible > by Gentoo developers using Gentoo SSO for the authentication. You can > log in using your nickname and your ldap password. Basically two use > cases are supported: > > 1) Just paste a link and get an automatically shortened url like > 'go.gentoo.org/XXX'. This is pretty much the normal url shortener > functionality. > > 2) You can paste a link and create a custom persistent link using a > prefix like 'go.gentoo.org/$prefix/$custom'. Allowed prefixes are the > nickname of the developer that is logged in or a project the developer > is part of. Thus I for one could create links like > 'go.gentoo.org/arzano/tyrian' or 'go.gentoo.org/infra/hashicorp'. > However, I would e.g. not be able to create > 'go.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide' as I am not part of the qa project. > Only members of the QA team could create that link. That's also the > reason I've been coming up with this, as this way every developer / > every project would be able to create custom persistent, nice / short > links. > > However, please note that this is just a first beta version yet and > it's not meant to be production-ready yet. Please feel free to test it > though. In general, I'm looking for some feedback on whether you would > be interested in the two functionalities to get a feeling whether it's > worth spending time on this / offering this service at all. > Also I would be especially interested whether you consider the second > functionality as useful. Because if we just want the first > functionality, we can simplify this and just use any of the > url-shorteners that are already out there, instead of using the > solution I have built. > > /M > > [0] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/sites/go-gentoo.git/ > Hi,
well my first impressions are that there are few major issues why I wouldn't use this: - for an URL shortener the final URL isn't really that short (there are multiple alternatives), - not a CLI tool to handle this (yet at least), - login would be REQUIRED so people won't spread malicious links with "gentoo.org" in it, or at least the accounts can be disabled. Although I do like the idea of team-specific links, in the end I fear there'd be many dead links and no one to clean/check those. So in the documents we're better at referring to the original source. -- juippis
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