Re: [Tails-dev] About the download and verification of test …

sajolida:
> As part of our work on integrating the new installation assistant and
> ISO verification extension in the rest of the website, we need to decide
> how to advertise the download and verification of test ISO images as
> these ones won't be available through the ISO verification extension
> (the extension only allows downloading the latest official ISO image).
>
> Until now we were using buttons to the direct download of ISO images and
> their signature. See for example
> https://tails.boum.org/news/test_2.0-beta1/index.en.html.
>
> Something else to keep in mind while discussing this is that, for the
> time being, I'm proposing to remove the old instructions for OpenPGP
> verification from the website. The rational behind this is explained in
> e66558a. The short version is that we're running way out of time on the
> assistant and this seems like some big work that could very well be
> postponed.
>
> Also, these instructions were already broken in Tails (see #9285 and not
> many people complained about this).
>
> Does this sound reasonable to you for test images?
>
> As an improvement, shall we point people to
> https://archive.torproject.org/ when downloading these?

Now I see that anonym reported #10915: "Consider publishing torrents for
betas and RCs" which would work great to solve the basic download
verification problem. I'm all for it.