Hi Francesca, On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:06:34AM +0100, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > is my intent to proceed with a clean up of vendors listed on [1] and [2].
Thanks for doing that! I actually have a few scripts which help with the CD vendor list, they flag sites that are not reachable anymore, don't have the word Debian anywhere on the page etc. > Vendors of Debian CD and PCs with Debian pre-installed who want to be listed > on Debian website, need to: > > 1. provide the URL of an up-and-running website and a mail address > 2. *explicitly* mention in their website the Debian product for which they > want to be listed > 3. maintain their product updated: specifically CD vendors must sell copies of > recent release, at least of the current oldstable (or stable if there's no > oldstable) Please also have a look at the requirements at the bottom of http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/info which I slowly added over time in response to problems with some vendors. If you feel that some are too strict, feel free to relax them. I just took a conservative approach - after all, people who trust the Debian website will send real money to the shops. We had a handful of spammers, so it makes sense to check submissions carefully. Some vendors put up a page, then remove it once they're listed, or they don't respond to offers. Others register multiple web shops with slightly different layout which all belong to the same company, I think that is also unfair towards other vendors. Cheers, Richard -- __ , | ) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/ | http://atterer.org | 08A9 7B7D 3D13 3EF2 3D25 D157 79E6 F6DC 8883 54F7
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