Ubuntu CD Images

releases page points to bad bittorrent link

Bug #146514 reported by Neal McBurnett
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu CD Images
Fix Released
Undecided
Steve Langasek

Bug Description

We encourage bittorrent downloads in the gutsy beta release email, but there are some roadblocks, even for savvy users.

http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/7.10/ points to a missing page: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html instead you get redirected to ads for movies.....

Looks like you want this instead: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitTorrent

The beta release page also hides all the torrent files way down among the mind-numbing list. Can links to them be added to the text above? Consider this a vote for resolving https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/93787

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Neal McBurnett (nealmcb) wrote :

I just noticed that there are actually lots of links to the missing http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html file - one for each torrent file listed on the page, in the descriptive comment on the right.

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- (a--deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Also maybe we can highlight the torrent links in a different colour
as it's quite easy to select the wrong one via the long list.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitTorrent

yes it would be a better link :)

Changed in ubuntu-website:
status: New → Confirmed
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Matthew East (mdke) wrote :

See also bug 102974.

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in ubuntu-website:
assignee: nobody → vorlon
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

thanks, the changed URL has been committed to the scripts that generate the index pages. The next publishing run (i.e., for 7.10 final) will reflect this change.

Changed in ubuntu-cdimage:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Neal McBurnett (nealmcb) wrote : Re: [Bug 146514] Re: releases page points to bad bittorrent link

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 01:34:59AM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> thanks, the changed URL has been committed to the scripts that generate
> the index pages. The next publishing run (i.e., for 7.10 final) will
> reflect this change.

Thanks - looks good for Gutsy, and that's of course the biggest
impact!

But we're still pointing folks to the movie advertising on the other
release pages I've checked, in particular all the torrent links on the
dapper LTS release page:

 http://releases.ubuntu.com/dapper/

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Thanks. I've done:

  find \( -name \*.html -o -name \.htaccess \) -print | xargs fgrep -l bittorrent.com | xargs sed -i 's,http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html,https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitTorrent,g'

... which should sort this out once it propagates to mirrors.

Changed in ubuntu-cdimage:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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