Hi Karol, Thanks for your input. I'm answering to your original email, but I read the whole discussion... On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Karol Babioch <karol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First of all I'm wondering why HOME_URL is set to the plain HTTP version > of archlinux.org, whereas the other two links are set to the secure > HTTPS version. This doesn't seem to be consequent. The example shows > that Fedora is using the HTTPS version for both the HOME_URL as well as > the BUG_REPORT_URL. I changed this in svn, will be included in the next filesystem release. > After reading the appropriate man page (see [2]), I think the parameter > SUPPORT_URL is not appropriate. It is set to > "https://bbs.archlinux.org/";. Personally I have some sort of a problem > with the fact that only the forums get mentioned as a source for > support. Personally I don't use the forums very often, but do make use > of the mailing lists and the *really* great wiki much more heavily. > Furthermore there are the various IRC channels, which probably are used > by some of you. > > Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be some sort of a landing page, > summarizing all the different ways you can ask/look for help, e.g. > something like "https://www.archlinux.org/support/";. Probably this would > be the best solution. It looks like Fedora isn't mentioning a support > URL at all, so maybe this would also be an option for us also? If and when such a page is created, I'll be happy to change the url to point to it. > Furthermore I'm wondering whether we should look into the Common > Platform Enumeration (CPE) specification (see [3]) in order to apply for > an entry. From what I can tell it doesn't cost anything, but you have to > contact the NVD CPE team, see [4]. Obviously this should be done by > someone officially connected to Arch Linux. Why would we want this? I don't know much about it, so if there are good reasons I'm interested to learn. -t
