Gerfried Fuchs schrieb am Dienstag, dem 10. Feber 2009: > > all pages on packages.d.o give credit to our kind sponsors in a footer. > > The only exception is the entry page, http://packages.debian.org/ > > because it is a redirect to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and > > there is no pointer to sponsors or anyone there. > > The website has it just in the lefthand column in its entry page.
That's for the mirror of the www.debian.org site. Not for the systems providing the packages.d.o service. > > It would be good if we could thank our sponsors on the most prominent > > page of that service. > > But ... you said it yourself, it's a redirect to a different page, and > that one isn't hosted by the same organization, or am I wrong? That part > isn't part of that service, it's part of a different service. http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages no matter on which server it is hosted is part of the packages.debian.org service. > > I don't know what the best way to fix this is, we could either move the > > start page back onto packages.d.o, but need some infrastructure to deal > > with translations - otoh we may already have that for some of the things > > on packages.d.o. Or we duplicate the sponsor info in webwml, or > > packages.d.o uses the sponsor info stored in some form in webwml. > > When one uses the form from that page they will end up in a > packages.d.o page that has the according service and site sponsor > listed, I'm not really sure if this is really that big deal? Putting the > sponsor information somewhere into that page might work out, but then > you have to keep it current in two different services which is rather > error prone - and personally I don't really see the big benefit? I think it's pretty offputting to sponsors when they are not credited at the entry page to a service. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `- http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
