Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Oddities links GNU identifiers on Savannah

[Ineiev]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 12:32:35PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > binutils    https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/binutils/      This
> > > project is related to www.gnu.org webmastering. Developers are gnu
> > > webmasters. It's part of the GNU Project.
...
> > > libgcrypt    https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libgcrypt/     This
> > > project is related to www.gnu.org webmastering. Developers are gnu
> > > webmasters. It's part of the GNU Project.
> > 
> > The messages are slightly confusing, but the gist is:
> 
> I think the comment was about the first line "This project is related
> to www.gnu.org webmastering. Developers are gnu webmasters. It's part
> of the GNU Project."  That is due to those projects having a
> group type set to www.gnu.org as seen:
> 
>   Group Type: www.gnu.org portions
> 
> And therefore that text from the group is added.  But that seems to be
> in error.  I think for most of those projects listed above the www
> group is incorrect.  Most projects should be either Official GNU
> Software or non-GNU software but some are just web only projects hence
> that selection.

These packages are hosted somewhere else, Savannah only hosts pages
of www.gnu.org that redirect to the actual websites.  I think instead
of changing group types we could add a note on their main pages.

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