From 56293b84f0fa5a978fad6c43c97a2328b316b0d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vignesh Sankaran Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:02:16 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Cleaned up notes about documentation blacklisting --- src/doc/manifest.md | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/doc/manifest.md b/src/doc/manifest.md index 8fd2d6c37..5adf17275 100644 --- a/src/doc/manifest.md +++ b/src/doc/manifest.md @@ -48,10 +48,14 @@ This field specifies a URL to a website hosting the crate's documentation. If no URL is specified in the manifest file, [crates.io][cratesio] will automatically link your crate to the corresponding [docs.rs][docsrs] page. -Documentation links from specific domainss are blacklisted. Currently, any link -from rust-ci.org will be blacklisted since this domain is no longer used for -legitimate documentation hosting. URLs from this domain will have no reported -documentation link on crates.io. +Documentation links from specific hosts are blacklisted. Hosts are added +to the blacklist if they are known to not be hosting documentation and are +possibly of malicious intent e.g. ad tracking networks. URLs from the +following hosts are blacklisted: +- rust-ci.org + +Documentation URLs from blacklisted hosts will not appear on crates.io, and +may be replaced by docs.rs links. [docsrs]: https://docs.rs/ [cratesio]: https://crates.io/ -- 2.30.2