On Fri, 2022-02-11 at 13:08 +0100, Jacob Kroon wrote: > On 2/11/22 12:39, Ross Burton wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 11:23, Jacob Kroon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I vote for removing the check altogether. > > > > > > As I understand it, the check was added in order to prevent > > > hard-to-interpret error messages when network failed. I can live with > > > that. > > > > I think the check should remain, and example.com has served well for > > some time now (since 2016 in > > 423a2645377bff2cd7292e1dc9796eeb3595e937). > > > > We moved to example.com to speed up the check: the old tests were for > > two yoctoproject.org URLs and it downloads the entire page, so that > > took time. > > > > If we can get a minimal page added to yoctoproject.org that doesn't > > involve hitting WordPress, then we can own the URL and have fast > > responses. > > > > I suppose if the intention is that the Yocto server will never ever be > down, the check is ok. But if it is ever going to need to go down > because of maintenance you will break bitbake builds for everyone in the > world, right ? Then I don't think users will be happy, even though the > downtime was planned and publicly announced on some website.
The reason we added this check in the first place was that people had interesting corporate environments and would blame the project when it didn't work. The check made sure we highlighted where the issue really was and in that sense it was really useful to new users. It was all about the new user experience. Experienced users can just disable it or reconfigure it very easily. I think using yoctoproject.org would be ok, but as mentioned, we need a plain page for this, reducing unneeded overhead is good. Let's see if we can sort something out. The yocto project site is cloud hosted these days and should be reliable with good uptime. Cheers, Richard
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