Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Suggestions for sidebar links

[John Sullivan]

Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> A couple caveats:
>
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:11:15AM -0400, John Sullivan wrote:
>> address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:
>> 
>> > I think the "GNU Task List" item should be removed, since it's a subset
>> > of "Help GNU".
>> >
>> > Seems like "Dev Documentation" should be under "Developer Info".
>> >
>> > Now that so many vc's are supported, is "Anonymous CVS" really worth
>> > having in the sidebar?  The specific instructions on the project pages
>> > are much more useful IMHO.
>> >
>> 
>> I second all of these suggestions. After removing Anonymous CVS,
>
> That's a request from RMS, because sometimes people are not clever
> enough to find the CVS instructions and ask the Emacs mailing list.
>
> CVS is also still the most widely used VCS.
>

IMO, "Anonymous CVS" doesn't help much here. If this is the goal, it seems like
it should be under Site Help and should be something like "CVS Instructions"?

>
>> I think the
>> Cryptographic Software Notice could be moved under Site Help (does it even 
>> need
>> to be so prominent?),
>
> Yes, it needs to be proeminent. RMS asked to put it clearly. This is
> the remnent of the law against exportation of cryptographic software
> in the US, which was recently relaxed. Consider this text a legal
> obligation (check http://www.kernel.org/ for a more proeminent
> notice).
>

OK.

>
>> and the Developer Info heading removed.
>> 
>> > The "Free Software Directory" is not part of the "GNU Project", but I
>> > don't know how to fix that.
>> >
>> 
>> That heading could be changed to GNU & FSF, or something like that.
>
> I'm in favor of keeping 'GNU' and 'FSF' separate concepts :)
>

What do you mean by this? Is that a yes or no to having the heading be GNU &
FSF?

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