On 29 November 2010 22:51, Debian Bug Tracking System <ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > > Thank you for the suggestion. Only that the Freshmeat is preferred over > personal web pages: > > - It does not move. Personal pages are volatile. > - Presents project information in a standard and uniform manner (at a > glance). > - User can subscribe to the project announcements. > - User can find other related software. > - Provides statistics and popularity.
Against this: - Projects may stop using Freshmeat - Did you ask the admin in this case? I would be quite annoyed if a distro maintainer pointed users to the Freshmeat page of a program I wrote. I use Freshmeat very sparingly, purely to announce programs, and the Freshmeat page typically contains little more than a brief description and an upstream link. Hence, a wasted click for a user looking for the project's home page. - Many thousands of Debian projects have Freshmeat announcements. Should they all have their Homepage field changed? - Freshmeat is widely known. I can easily look for a project there (indeed, it's the first thing I normally do when I want to subscribe to updates). - We have to hope that Freshmeat URLs are stable. (Did they stay the same from version 1 to 2 and 2 to 3?) In short, most of the reasons you give boil down to "Freshmeat is useful". I agree. But it's also easy to find anyway, and when I want a project's home page, I want its home page, which is often harder to find. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
