You could, the only requirement is that it's served over HTTPS. We're simply recommending imgur as an example of a free image hosting service which has https enabled.
On Mon Feb 02 2015 at 2:05:57 PM Charles Butler < charles.but...@canonical.com> wrote: > 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.vei...@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 <jo...@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? > > > > > > -- > > > Juju mailing list > > > Juju@lists.ubuntu.com > > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju > > > > > > > > -- > > Nick Veitch > > nick.vei...@canonical.com > > > > -- > > Juju mailing list > > Juju@lists.ubuntu.com > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju > -- > Juju mailing list > Juju@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/juju >
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