[Savannah-hackers] Re: freesoftware.fsf.org: the issue that will not die

[Mathieu Roy]

"Bradley M. Kuhn" <address@hidden> said:

> I know that the savannah-hackers are working hard to implement the full
> split between freesoftware.fsf.org and savannah.gnu.org.
> I hope this will be done soon.  However, in the meantime, I have
> another issue I would like to raise.
> 
> Twice, in the past few months, I have had to deal with PR problems
> arising from the fact that people tend to think a document posted on
> "freesoftware.fsf.org" is officially a statement from FSF.  I am
> worried that as this URL becomes more prominent, we will see even
> more of these sorts of problems.
> 
> I would like to (at least briefly) reopen the discussion about using
> another domain instead.  We noticed here at the office that the domains
> "softwarefreedom.net" and "software-freedom.net" are not yet taken.  I
> think this would be a good name for the savannah services we give to the
> community.
> 
> 
> We could, of course, let freesoftware.fsf.org still do a URL-rewrite to
> "SOMETHING.softwarefreedom.net"; the URLs need not break.  The important
> thing for me is for the URL bar to show something that won't lead people
> to believe it is an official position of the FSF.

The initials would be SF.net. We shouldnt do that.
Is savannah.nongnu.org possible?
Or maybe savannah.org (probably taken).

It would be good to maintain a coherence and avoiding two real
differents service names for one same service.

It's misleading to have non-gnu project with gnu (or fsf, anyway)
within their urls and email address. But savannah is ok, I think.

> Again, I am sorry to reopen this previously-decided issue, but I
> don't want to spend more time dealing with with PR annoyance of
> getting asked if items posted on freesoftware.fsf.org are official
> FSF statements.

No problem. This discussion need to be reopened anyway.

Regards,

-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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