Bug#900421: improve "wiki account creation delayed" message
Hi folks, I would add to the issue the portion of the message that says "from some people". When we got that yesterday creating Josh's account (Josh in CC), we found it a bit weird (why from me? what is wrong about me?). So I suggest your clearly state that the anti-spam has blocked the account creation, so it clearly shows it is not personal, just computer rules (spammy heuristics as described by pabs on IRC). Thanks for taking care of it! Happy hacking, Tassia.
Bug#900421: improve "wiki account creation delayed" message
Hi Steve, On 2019-01-27 15:56, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Updated to say > > "Automatic account creation disabled to stop spammers signing >up. Please contact $admin_private and describe what you want to do in >the wiki." > > How does that sound? Great news, I think this new message solves the issue. Thanks again! Tassia.
Re: Please adopt the data source www.debian.org for Debian Contributors (#734509)
Hi, I've updated the contributors data source for the website, tracking contributions from commits to the repository https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/ The only missing step is to transfer this configuration from my machine to the Debian infra. I'm in contact with Larjona and we'll set this up in the near future. I believe this bug can be closed now. Thanks, Tassia.
Bug#902668: Draft for rewrite of https://www.debian.org/CD/verify
Hi, I've reviewed the proposed patch, and I think it should be applied as soon as possible. It seems Laura was waiting for a final review before applying this patch (long overdue!), which IMHO would bring much more clarity to the image verification process (usually, a big struggle to new users). We should make a decision about the long key IDs request (points 1 and 2 from #851541), and once those changes go online, I think both bugs could be closed (#902668 and #851541). Thanks for all who have invested energy to clarify this process, and I hope we can benefit from your work very soon! Cheers, Tassia.
Bug#1067649: Verification page is not accessible from the homepage
Package: www.debian.org Severity: important X-Debbugs-CC: debian...@lists.debian.org Dear www and CD teams, When the Download link in our homepage was changed to start the iso download right away, the old download page [1] became inaccessible (at least not easily-accessible), making it very hard to find the verification page [2]. I could only find it clicking on "other downloads", then "Download mirrors", and scrolling up until the top of the page, where a menu appears on the right, containing the link to the verify page (I guess many of our users would totally miss it!). My suggestion would be to replace the line "other downloads" with 2 separate links side-by-side: "verify authenticity" | "check all download options" And incorporate the content of the old download page into those 2 targets, the verify and "Getting Debian" page [3] (current target of other downloads). [1] https://www.debian.org/download [2] https://www.debian.org/CD/verify [3] https://www.debian.org/distrib/ Cheers, Tassia.
Bug#1067649: Verification page is not accessible from the homepage
Hi Thomas,
On 2024-03-25 02:39, Thomas Lange wrote:
> I don't think we need the link on the startpage, but maybe on the
> /distrib page where we provide other ISO downloads.
>
I agree that not every user need to verify downloads.
> But in the end I try to remember whenever I have verified an ISO by
> myself.
>
I do that on a regular basis for educational purposes, as I see the
value of being able to verify authenticity of our images with our own
hands.
> I can't remember and I guess I never did it. Maybe I
> check that I'm using https://www.debian.org. That's all I need to
> trust.
>
It is not only a matter of trusting the website, but the network, and
even the local filesystem. It happened to me once to have to re-flash a
batch of 20 USBs, because I had not verified if the file I had at hands
was the good one. I can imagine that for media vendors it is also of
crucial importance, to make sure they are redistributing the authentic
image.
So here I adapt my original request: please add the link to /verify at
the /distrib page; and if possible, also consider renaming the link of
"other downloads", since the content of the target is not only about
other downloads. For a minimal change, I'd say "other download options",
but I'd prefer "other ways of getting debian" ("Getting Debian" is the
title of the /distrib page, so it will be less confusing when the user
lands on the target).
Thanks for considering!
Tassia.
