A new URL shortener for Chromium developers

[Nicolas Ouellet-Payeur]

Hello chromium-dev,

I made this thing over the weekend. It's a URL shortener meant for Chromium developers. It's available at https://crgo.dev/

It's inspired by crbug.com, crrev.com, and go-links. It generalizes crrev.com to more sites we use daily.

(BTW, getting a 4-letter domain name is hard these days)

Let's say you want to a particular file in the codebase, via CodeSearch. The URL is pretty long: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/browser/browser_process_impl.cc

The shortened version takes up less space, so it flows better in your emails/codereviews: https://crgo.dev/c/b/browser_process_impl.cc

Or say some tests failed on linux-ozone-rel, and you want to link to it. You can use: https://crgo.dev/try/linux-ozone-rel/865847

You get the idea. On https://crgo.dev/, you'll find the list of supported URLs and a config for the Linkable extension (so you can easily create a link for the page you're currently on).

(Sadly, the Linkable extension is only available for Googlers... And I couldn't find another extension that would let us do the same thing :-/)

Anyways, that's it for today, and thanks for taking a look

[Mike Frysinger]

who is maintaining the crgo.dev service ?  just you, or is chops handling it ?

-mike

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[Nicolas Ouellet-Payeur]

Right now it's just me, but I can hand it off to chops if it gains any traction

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[Mike Frysinger]

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we've had problems in the past with one-off shorteners being maintained by one person.  they move on or forgot to renew the domain or something like that, and then it's a firedrill to recover.  if it actually catches on, then it needs to maintained by chops, and i don't think forcing it onto them after the fact is the right way to go.

-mike

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[Lei Zhang]

Thanks for putting this together. I wonder though, do we need to have
crgo.dev/b/NN when crbug.com/NN already exists and is shorter?
Similarly for /r/ entries, as crrev.com/NN and crrev.com/c/NN already
exist.

Is there a way for devs to add more links? e.g. I would like to have a
public version of go/chrome-includes for pointing to
https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-clang/include-analysis.html.