Screenshots in charm READMEs (policy request)

[Marco Ceppi]

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.butler at 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.veitch at 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 <jorge at 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?
> > >
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