Re: RFS: rush

[Lars Buitinck <larsmans@gmail.com>]

2010/12/21, Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson@gisladisker.se>:
> tisdag den 21 december 2010 klockan 18:46 skrev Lars Buitinck detta:
>> 2010/12/21, Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson@gisladisker.se>:
>> Maybe nitpicking here, but wouldn't it be wiser to use
>> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/rush/ as the url? When I saw
>> gnu.org.ua, the first thing I did was check if this was really an FSF
>> site (which it isn't). savannah clearly states that rush "is part of
>> the GNU Project".
>
> Considering that the origin and development is tied to "gnu.org.ua"
> I found
>
>     http://download.gnu.org.ua/pub/release/rush/
>
> to be the proper location. It is a secondary fact that the author is
> also tied to FSF and thus a kind of mirror is located at "savannah.gnu.org".
>
> You are suggesting that
>
>     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/rush/
>
> be preferrable in the watch file, in spite of this not being the home
> of the project. Personally I am not convinced that dropping the Ukrainian
> origin is an honest thing to do. How is it "wiser" to refer to FSF/GNU.org
> than to gnu.org.ua?

Because it clearly links this package (which has "gnu" in its name) to
the FSF, through an authorative URL under that organization's control
that asserts inclusion in the GNU Project.

Regards,
Lars