From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KmjBX-0003Yg-FD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:03:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5914AE0459; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 06:03:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3002FE0459 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 06:03:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC4565375 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 06:03:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.827 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.827 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.772, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Epcy7BXmeTO4 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 06:03:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2ED26530E for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 06:03:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KmjBH-0006cG-PX for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:02:55 +0000 Received: from ip68-231-12-43.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.12.43]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:02:55 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-12-43.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:02:55 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 06:02:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20081005104420.GE15949@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <20081005212329.3ac8b68e@googlemail.com> <200810052355.43253.bangert@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-12-43.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d49937ae-9fcf-4750-9794-e6cfdd104f32 X-Archives-Hash: e7ead30e9fbb470fd4320b8b94638eb9 "Alec Warner" posted b41005390810051952i93eafb0r5a0ca7e31a34574c@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:52:48 -0700: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Thilo Bangert > wrote: >> >> HOMEPAGE=3D"http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/" >> > That would impose needless lookups on subdomains of gentoo.org for > clients trying to load the homepage. I like Thilo's suggestion -- modified a bit and with the caveat that such= =20 a page is actually created, with some generic details explaining that no=20 other homepage could be found and how Gentoo handles such cases (a link=20 to the DMCA/copyright notification page may be helpful as a CYA, this=20 being written assuming Gentoo has one, I've not checked but if we don't=20 it could save a LOT of trouble if someone makes a mistake...), and=20 encouraging anyone who comes across a homepage for such a package to bug=20 it. The modification bit would be to make it a new page on an existing=20 subdomain. Something like this: http://www.gentoo.org/no-homepage.xml It could be made per-project or the like, too, but that makes it more=20 difficult to auto-detect, for anyone/anything that desires to. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman