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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Sam James <sam@g.o>
Cc: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata.dtd: add gnu, nongnu remote-ids
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:53:06
Message-Id: uczci90p6@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata.dtd: add gnu, nongnu remote-ids by Sam James
1 >>>>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2022, Sam James wrote:
2
3 >> I think they should be called savannah and savannah-nongnu because gnu
4 >> isn't savannah. There are many GNU packages that are hosted elsewhere,
5 >> e.g. gcc, gdb, glibc, or binutils.
6
7 > It's a fair point and it's one I raised in #gentoo-qa, although the same
8 > comment applies to gitlab, GitHub, and sourcehut.
9
10 Exactly. How would you name the ID if only savannah.gnu.org existed (but
11 not its nongnu sibling)? "savannah" or "gnu"?
12
13 > savannah-nongnu unfortunately sounds very clunky.
14
15 Thinking about it, "nongnu" is probably fine. nongnu.org even redirects
16 to savannah.nongnu.org.
17
18 Ulrich

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