Re: How To Spread Open Source

Richard Owlett <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/24/2016 9:28 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:59 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> I wish I'd known of that link. I suspect it will answer questions I didn't
>> know just how to ask. My I suggest it appear under the "Documentation"
>> heading on https://www.debian.org, or at least on https://www.debian.org/doc/ ?
>
> It isn't documentation, it is just a web front-end to `apt-get source`.
>
> It is linked from every PTS/tracker page:
>
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux.html
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linux
>
> One place to add it would be the packages site:
>
> https://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/linux
>
> I've filed bugs #845600/#845601 about adding it and codesearch there.
>

I don't see that addressing the audience I have in mind.
That of computer _user_ rather than software creator or maintainer.
I'm beginning to suspect that what I'm looking for is not as tied 
to https://packages.debian.org/source as I thought. I've followed 
some links there that led me to unexpected places.

I will do more browsing in order to come up with a better question.
Thank you.
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