on package duplication between Debian and debian-multimedia

[Andres Mejia]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli <leader at debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Unless I'm mistaken, on April 7th, while the discussion between me and
>> the pkg-multimedia-maintainer was going on, you've both renewed
>> debian-multimedia.org for another year and registered the domain that
>> now hosts http://www.deb-multimedia.org . I guess that is the website
>> you want to move debian-multimedia.org to.
>>
>> You're right, that would solve the "debian" name problem.
>
> Frankly, this doesn't "solve" anything. First of all,
> "deb-multimedia.org" is confusingly similar to the former name,
> because only two letters are dropped. Moreover, the archive itself is
> still called 'debian-multimedia'. This means that users that use a
> mirror such as http://debian.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/debian-multimedia/
> as advised remain confused. As shown earlier in this thread, such an
> URL does make people think this was an official Debian resource, which
> it is not.
>
> --
> regards,
>     Reinhard
>
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His website still shows "Debian Multimedia" in the header of all
pages. Those need to be updated. Also, his website has no disclaimer
(that I've seen) which states the site is not a part of or is
affiliated with Debian. I know it wasn't explicitly mentioned before
that he should post a disclaimer but, he should post a disclaimer on
the front of his page and in his FAQ.

Also, his donate page only says "You can donate by using paypal in
Euro/€. <PayPal logo> or directly to my bank account. <account
numbers> In any case, thanks in advance." This is horrible IMO. This
is practically the same kind of message sent via the spam I get every
single day. How about showing a little appreciation when asking for
contributions? This would work better "Please consider offering a
donation to help me cover the cost of maintaining this
website/service. Your contributions are welcome. <instructions on how
to donate/who to contact/etc.>" And of course, his donate page
definitely needs to be clear where/who the donations are going to
(i.e. it needs a disclaimer making clear none of the donations go to
Debian).

-- 
~ Andres