Current situation

actual released image in qcow2 format are then compressed with gzip or bzip2

Impact

this situation don't allow direct use/import of the image URL with tools
because we need to download it first , uncompresse it and next import it

Ideal future situation

we need to use inline compressed qcow2 format to distribute qcow2 file

Implementation options

qemu-image convert -O qcow2 -c ...... allow that