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