Re: [directory-discuss] Random thought on fsd and wikidata

[Laura Morales]

Then perhaps all those people maintaining "Free GNU/Linux distributions" should 
contribute to the fsd instead of duplicating their work for every distribution, 
and use the fsd as the base from where to choose which packages to include in 
their package managers. Then the fsd would have a purpose.

 
 

Sent: Monday, November 05, 2018 at 4:22 PM
From: "Cédric Marie" <address@hidden>
To: "Donald Robertson" <address@hidden>
Cc:address@hidden, directory-discuss <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [directory-discuss] Random thought on fsd and wikidata
Hi,

> On 11/01/2018 10:13 AM, Laura Morales wrote:
>> Since data on the fsd seems mostly old and not very up to date...
>> I was wondering: does the fsd need to exist at all? Can't it be
>> merged into wikidata?
>> Wouldn't it be better to spend time on other projects than this?
>> For example, we could just add a new property to wikidata called
>> "fsf-verified" and I think this would pretty much do everything
>> the directory does.

I mostly agree with the initial remark, even if wikidata is not the
solution to the problem.

I think that the content of FSD is quite redundant with what GNU/Linux
distributions do.
Trusted distributions (I mean:
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html) already check the license
of the packages, and keep them up to date, because this is their main
purpose, while the FSD has no vital need to keep them up to date, this
is just for information.

I suppose that the problem is that FSF needs to have its own database,
so I don't have any solution to propose either. I just agree that FSD
sounds a little bit out of sync with reality of packages, and might not
be used as a reference for that reason.


--
Cédric