7:42 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Johannes Dewender" <fedora(a)JonnyJD.net>
> To: python-ethtool-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:09:14 PM
> Subject: Fix homepage and mention ML somewhere
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am the maintainer of the python-ethtool package at Arch Linux and only
> found out about the new 0.8 release after celebdor pointed me to it
> (half a year later).
>
> There is no official homepage apart from the git repository overview
> (which changed) and no mentioning of this ML anywhere I know of.
> Probably I didn't search hard enough, but my point is: This is far from
> obvious, at least for non-fedora/Red Hat devs.
>
> One of the wikis should probably be updated to include the current:
> - repository
> - official tarball location
> - Mailing list
> - bug tracker (red hat bugs or ML?)
I would say that the bug tracker to use is red hat's bugzilla, probably
setting Fedora as the OS.
>
> The wikis I found:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python-ethtool
> (Yes, this is empty, but listed in setup.py as url of the project.)
> and
> https://fedorahosted.org/python-ethtool/
> which at least points to the correct repository.
Personally I'd find it nice to have the niceties of a modern repo hosting
site like github, bitbucket, etc.
python-ethtool isn't a big project, and it's not too many users of it.
But I see the interest growing slowly. We initiated project hosting on
fedorahosted.org, with all the required bits and pieces. But haven't
really had to improve the info there.
For, it's far easier to use fedoraproject as I'm required through my job
to have an account there. It have the pieces I consider important: git
repo, wiki, bug-tracker and a mailing list. Okay, it may not look as
fancy as other, but I honestly don't care about that - not for such a
tool like py-ethtool. For me the most important piece a git repository
which is hosted a place which is clearly recognised as a well know F/OSS
actor.
Personally I also have a general dislike for github. Their site is
basically closed source, projects there have historically been bad at
promoting good F/OSS licenses for projects hosted there. And very many
projects there are not really open source projects at all (often due to
bad/missing licenses). And in addition, I always get instantly
sceptical when "everyone" wants to use github. Nothing is really for
free, and if you don't pay you're the product.
Alternatives like gitorious, bitbucket, etc, are things I don't have any
hands-on experience from. But since Red Hat is a well known F/OSS
contributor and does so without any hidden agenda, in addition being
behind Fedora and fedroahosted.org, I feel that's a safe place to stay.
Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat, but py-ethtool is not my main task, more
like a side project.
--
kind regards,
David Sommerseth