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@babioch.de> 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