Domains are, sure but the space is much much larger. With namespaces the space is for example namespace x crate instead of just crate. With domains it’s impossibly large. And if you introduce some kind verification with domains e.g putting something in the DNS TEXT entry, or calling a well-known path, or or or, you basically can’t squat anything well-known anymore.
As for github, you must have a github account to create a crate on crates.io. to my knowledge there is no alternative crates registry. Point me to one if you do, because I’d be grateful and willing to publish my crates there.
I find it ridiculous that they started with github in the first place, but who am I to judge. It is ironic that in order to contribute a non-github solution, you still need to create a github account to make a PR.
@onlinepersona I’m quite certain that if you have a working solution, visible somewhere on internet, you can ping them on zulip/discourse to ask someone to pull your code.
Oh really? 🤔 Every project on Github that I’ve tried to contribute to from outside has been resistant to it. But maybe I could give cargo.io a try. Zulip you say? Interesting choice… requires creating yet another account since it doesn’t seem to be federated…
@onlinepersona Given that this subject was already brought up, and regular people from the project said that their is interest for removing the dependency to github (but not leave it, Microsoft is one of the top contributor), I assume that some people would be willing to help the integration a working prototype.
Domain are also susceptible to being hijacked, unfortunately.
Also what do you mean by github only?
Domains are, sure but the space is much much larger. With namespaces the space is for example
namespace x crateinstead of justcrate. With domains it’s impossibly large. And if you introduce some kind verification with domains e.g putting something in the DNS TEXT entry, or calling a well-known path, or or or, you basically can’t squat anything well-known anymore.As for github, you must have a github account to create a crate on crates.io. to my knowledge there is no alternative crates registry. Point me to one if you do, because I’d be grateful and willing to publish my crates there.
@onlinepersona @Miaou for github they said for years that they would welcome patches but so far nobody came, nor payed someone to do it for them.
I find it ridiculous that they started with github in the first place, but who am I to judge. It is ironic that in order to contribute a non-github solution, you still need to create a github account to make a PR.
@onlinepersona I’m quite certain that if you have a working solution, visible somewhere on internet, you can ping them on zulip/discourse to ask someone to pull your code.
Oh really? 🤔 Every project on Github that I’ve tried to contribute to from outside has been resistant to it. But maybe I could give cargo.io a try. Zulip you say? Interesting choice… requires creating yet another account since it doesn’t seem to be federated…
@onlinepersona Given that this subject was already brought up, and regular people from the project said that their is interest for removing the dependency to github (but not leave it, Microsoft is one of the top contributor), I assume that some people would be willing to help the integration a working prototype.
In case you need it:
https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/