Re: [bug-womb] GNU package lists move from womb to www

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Ineiev <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 12:37:20PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> 
>> I forgot to chime in earlier I think, but I wondered who is “we” in “we
>> decided” above,
>
> GNU webmasters, address@hidden and Savannah admins.
>
>> and my gut reaction was that it’s sad that GNU
>> maintainers would effectively lose access to that important piece of
>> information.
>
> They won't: the maintainers of those lists have always had access
> to www web page repository, because they must update GNU package
> lists on www.gnu.org after every change.

OK.  A fraction of the GNU maintainers have access to it, right?

>> In Guix we have a bit of infrastructure that relies on this info, so I
>> guess we’ll update the URL.  It was useful that those of us interested
>> in this info could occasionally update the rec file in the Womb.
>
> And now those of you interested in this info can occasionally update
> the rec file in www: whenever you want a change, please file
> a request to maintainers@ or address@hidden

Sure, I’ll be happy to do that; it does raise the bar, though.

Thanks for explaining,
Ludo’.