Hashes wiki page

Elizabeth K. Joseph lyz at ubuntu.com
Mon Sep 8 22:24:00 UTC 2014


On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For obvious reasons the hashes web page [1] is not editable by everyone.
> It is also not regularly maintained, leading to many bug reports
> (8 so far, since 14.04.1).
>
> Is there someone on this list with higher than normal wiki powers,
> that has sufficient rights to edit the page, that can help us with
> the bug report [2].
>
> We want to delete the entire content and have the page refer
> the user to the real location for the hashes.
>
> Gunnar has pointed out (off-list) that it may be desirable to
> do some collateral editing on [3], and that maybe [3] and [4]
> should be combined.
>
> Myself, I just want to get rid of this re-occurring issue, as it
> comes up every release and point release.
>
> [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1349715
> [3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
> [4] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VerifyIsoHowto

It looks like this was historically maintained by the Ubuntu release
team, including Colin (who has updated it last) and Stéphane (on the
release team) on this thread to get their opinion. I don't want to
just alter/delete it if they continue to find value in it and can
commit to keeping it updated.

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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2
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