Bug#514658: sponsor recognition on packages.d.o

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

* Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> [2009-02-10 13:13:25 CET]:
> 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.

 Of course, because the page is part of the www.debian.org site. I know
it might sound nitpicking and I don't deny that, but I don't see the
real need to make a different footer for a single page.

 Besides, I haven't yet heard any suggestion in how you'd like to see
the acknowledgement, or anything that would be possible to turn into
some patch suggestion.

> >  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.

 That's as nitpicking as myself and I guess we won't be able to find a
common ground on this.

> I think it's pretty offputting to sponsors when they are not credited at
> the entry page to a service.

 I wouldn't call it the entry page to the service, but ...

 ... but 1&1 is already quite big presented on
<http://www.debian.org/partners/>, the canonical page where we list all
big partners and sponsors.

 Personal question: Where you addressed by 1&1 that they consider it
belittling them? Why didn't they address us directly? What's the root of
this? It's just ... we have the partners page for a reason so that not
have to clutter the different pages with various informations and it has
worked for the years. So I really would like to know what's actually
behind this, are you part of 1&1 yourself, where does this request
otherwise origin in, and what's the deal?

 I'm not objecting to it per se - I just want to get facts straight
before changing the established workflow and guidelines.

 Thanks,
Rhonda