Re: (re-)evaluation of notabug.org

[Hein-Pieter van Braam-Stewart]

Notabug largely relies on reports from other users as well as a script
I run to see if a file such as LICENSE or COPYING exists in all the
repos. After which I manually check the ones that do not. This happens
about once a month.

Checking each individual file is not even remotely feasible. However
the rule that they *should* all be licensed exists. So a user reporting
a violation will be acted upon.

On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 16:01 +0200, Bert Van de Poel wrote:
> I agree that insisting is quite a difficult term within this
> criterium. 
> Either it presumes, like Bill explained, that an admin manually
> checks, 
> which I don't think is realistic, or it boils down to recommending
> since 
> software can't do much more than mention it at every stage. I don't 
> think insisting should then be an extra aspect on A+, I already feel 
> like certain criteria are difficult to succeed at when your forge has
> a 
> certain amount of popularity, we shouldn't add to that list in my
> opinion.
> 
> Bert
> 
> 
> On 6/04/2021 14:59, bill-auger wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 06:25:30 -0400 bill-auger wrote:
> > > in summary, i see only two criteria which are clearly failing:
> > > B0 and A+5
> > i just realized that i omitted A9 - i was following the wiki
> > checklist, which had a bug, preventing A9 from being rendered
> > 
> > notabug does not satisfy A9
> > 
> >    Insists that each nontrivial file in a package clearly and
> >    unambiguously state how it is licensed. (A9)
> > 
> > i wonder if this criteria could be relaxed to "Recommend ..." or
> > "Explains the importance of ...; or for it to be moved to the A+
> > class - that is not to argue against the criteria itself; but in
> > practice, it will probably prevent any forge other than savannah
> > from ever fulfilling the A class completely - it is not likely
> > that any forge would ever be able to enforce it, technically;
> > though that would be a great feature
> > 
> > enforcing it would be an admin task; and it would rely on users
> > reporting offending repos - surely the admins alone, can not
> > police it, with thousands of users; and in practice, it is not
> > likely that users would ever report offending repos - the ideal
> > is great; but in practice, this is not going to actually happen,
> > not on savannah either
> > 
> 
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