[Labs-l] [Labs-announce] [Tools] Announcing cdnjs mirror for toollabs

[Golden Ring]

I was not aware of this aspect of the privacy policy - in fact I'm not sure
I've ever seen a link to the tools labs privacy policy. Is it linked
somewhere prominent and I just glazed over at that point? Or does it need
more prominent promotion?

I'm on holiday camping for the next week but when I get back I will change
my tool to no longer link to external js resources.

Regards,
GoldenRing
On 26/04/2015 12:49 am, "Yuvi Panda" <yuvipanda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> The Privacy Policy on Tool Labs means you can't load external
> resources for JS / CSS, which is kind of a pain – normally you would
> use something like Google's CDN or cdnjs to load common JS libraries.
> With toollabs you had to provide this yourself. Ireas created the
> "static" project https://tools.wmflabs.org/static/ to centralise this
> effort. To improve load and performance we also created the
> https://tools-static.wmflabs.org server as cookieless and better
> cached domain to serve static assets from.
>
> Now there exists https://tools.wmflabs.org/cdnjs/, which is a mirror
> of https://cdnjs.com. This allows you to easily include a wide variety
> of CSS / JS libraries in a fast, friendly and privacy policy compliant
> way :) We hope the cdnjs tool (which makes use of tools-static) will
> make it easy to provide static assets by taking away the maintenance
> overhead of registering new libraries and keeping up with new
> releases.
>
> This should be faster than serving it out of your tool, since it is
> puppetized and run directly from local file system (rather than NFS).
> Appropriate cache headers are set too. It keeps older versions around
> forever as well. You can add your favorite libraries (if they aren't
> there already) by following the cdjs process. [1]
>
> Thanks to the cdnjs community for maintaining this in an open, easy to
> mirror way, Ori Livneh for the original idea, and Krinkle for support.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs#adding-a-new-or-updating-an-existing-library
> [2] Just clone https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs and set up an index
> generator (
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/labs/tools/cdnjs-index)!
>
>
> --
> Yuvi Panda T
> http://yuvi.in/blog
>
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