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On 06/04/2020 22:18, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2020-04-06 17:12:30 +0200 (+0200), Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> I've wrote about this earlier I guess, but I believe I need to do it
>> once more. Often I see in the docs things like this:
>>
>> .. image:: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/badges/<FOO>.svg
>>      :target: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/tags/index.html
> [...]
>> The solution is simple: have the resource being *LOCAL* (ie: stored in
>> the project's doc), not stored on an external site.
> [...]
> 
> I'm not a fan of this "feature" myself, but feel compelled to point
> out that it's intentionally dynamic content dependent on metadata
> from another repository which is intended to change at different
> times than the document itself changes, so including a copy of that
> file would make little sense.

It *might* make sense - the info it shows is time dependent, so if
a project was asserting follows-stable-policy in pike, showing
that is not necessarily _wrong_ ... Same as if a project was moved
out of OpenStack in Havana, the docs could show the openstack project
badge until then.[1]


1 - I am aware the badges didn't exist in havana

  It's entirely there so that projects
> can have the same feel-good "badges" which they see displayed in the
> README files of other projects on GitHub. It exists purely so that
> real-time RST-to-HTML renderers will display the current state of a
> number of bits of governance metadata, so stripping those out of
> packaged documentation builds is the right thing to do. Maybe we
> could make it easier to have our documentation builds strip that
> content automatically so that distro package maintainers don't need
> to?
>