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Several servers currently listed are not actually part of the rotation
happening on download.gimp.org (automatic redirection to mirrors). So
there is no need to check they are up-to-date in our release process.

Of course, it would be nice to contact them and propose them to actually
be a part of the rotation settings, i.e. ask rsync credentials to GNOME.

This edit was made by the new script update-mirrors.py which syncs our
local list with the actual download server settings.

This new tool looks up the actual mirror list on download.gimp.org,
a.k.a. master.gnome.org and update our local list, which will be used by
gimp-check-mirrors.py.

As a consequence it can only be used by contributors with SSH access to
download.gimp.org.

This is a old link not sure if its still the norm to write plugins like that.

Liam Quin (ankh/demib0y/barefootliam) authored Jul 05, 2021 and Jehan committed Jul 05, 2021

As per discussion in #gimp, let's add mention of the Discord server to
irc now that we have admin access there.

I also cleaned up the text very slightly (e.g. changed "obsolete" to
"redundant", they are not synonyms ;D )

After the weird Freenode drama lately and the fact that the whole server
just got wiped out apparently (I have not personally checked, and won't,
but there are news everywhere of this), let's just get rid of the
listing of known channels on Freenode.

We had been discussing this topic for a few weeks anyway, and even more
for the more general question of what we should list on this page, since
even before, the Freenode channels never were official in any way (yet
some known team members were also ops on some of these apparently). I
guess the wipe simplifies the discussion as there is nothing to list
anymore. Now the discussion we will have to have (and already started
some time ago) will be to decide whether we should ever list there any
more non-GIMPnet discussion channels in the future.

The parameter -m specifies the mirror file path and file name instead of assuming it is in the current
directory. The torrent trackers are now an extensible string array (in sh-compatible syntax) instead of a
limited list of variables.

… installers.
Comment out for now the generated link which is supposed to send you
direct to the artifacts. This link unfortunately only works when no
other pipelines for master were run after because it takes into account
the last pipeline not the last job for a branch.
Cf. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/331232

Shlomi Fish authored May 01, 2020 and Jehan committed May 26, 2021

The HTML w3c validator is unhappy with URLs containing whitespace:

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gimp.org%2F

Fixed the URLs and renamed the files.

See:

* !37 -
  discussion.

Don't use the mirror/ version of the URLs to download.gimp.org when we
want to embed videos. These redirect aren't appreciated by the content
security policy of our web server.

Fix the images which are not relative to the current release note, but
taken from other news on the website.

As discussed on IRC yesterday (yes, it's meta!), the text which says
it has existed for more than 10 years is itself probably 10 years old.
So let's update.

We still have not decided what we do about the non-GIMPnet channel list
as these were never really considered as official channels anyway (I
mean, we always had our own network, why would they be?). Yet some of
the core GIMP team members have been on some of these channels and had
some op powers. Still to be discussed what we do with this other channel
list…

Add Jacob Boerema and Niels De Graef. Remove the former maintainer (who
hasn't contributed for nearly 10 years, I haven't even spoken once to
him!). Basically my choice was based on at least adding the developers
who contributed more than a hundred commits in the last few years (with
`git shortlog -sn --since=2019-01-01`) and keeping the ones who are
still around even when they may have not contributed much code these
last few years (but staying around is important too).

Also adding Aryeom to the web team, as her designs and comics strip are
all over the pages.

It was mostly just encoding mixup. In Python 3, the string type is
basically unicode string. That's it. :-)

I think this was the only remnant blocking our port of the website to
Python 3! \o/

Thanks to ankh for the help!

Also some minor fix in the end, date fix and removal of draft status.

We are not going to push the release news again much further. Let's make
a note and expect a new installer revision later.