Hi, I guess this shall be my last mail on this topic. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:18:11AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > That's one of the reasons why so many people use github, since that URL is > less likely to change. less likely, but imagine 3000 golang packages in the archive in 5 years and then github is bought by google and renamed to goolab. or whatever. it's a disaster waiting to happen. anytime. (and if you think that's unlikely imagine gitlab buying github and unifying the services under the gitlab name for whatever reason we cannot see yet. Obviously I understand that github is a big brand today, but there is a long list of mega brands which went away.) > One interesting detail of this approach is that it means that a takeover > of the package by a different maintainer results in a different package > name inherently. I've head that it's common for people to change their last names too. Doesn't happen too often but it happens. And some will change login names. And one of them is maintaining something which is used by many projects. > I'm not sure whether it's a feature or a bug, but it's > certainly interesting. oh yes, "interesting" is often a polite way of saying… -- cheers, Holger
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