Questions about package information

[jme52]

1. Would it be possible to display packages (e.g., in https://fortran-lang.org/packages/scientific) more uniformly? At the moment those that are developed on GitHub have much more information available than those that are based on other websites, which may give the impression that non-GitHub packages a less active. Would it be possible to display the same information for those developed on GitLab?

2. Would it be possible to give more information (ideally in the submission documentation) about how the version information works? Its purpose is not very clear at the moment. Is that the version that package rapporteurs will be checking? Do other versions need to meet the criteria too? Are there any plans to create version-based links (so the version string must match a tag in the repository)?

Thank you.

[awvwgk]

I think the main reason for this that we are currently relying on shields.io to display the meta data, which has a rather strong focus on GH. It would be beneficial to have actually access to the meta data we are displaying rather than using a third-party provider for this purpose.

[awvwgk]

I found a way to display additional information for gitlab hosted packages as well, see https://github.com/fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org/pull/196.

[jme52]

Thank you for your replies.

1. Fixed by fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org#196, thank you.

2. Maybe more important than my questions back in December: after the merge of fortran-lang/fortran-lang.org#196, PACKAGES.md should be updated since now versions are automatically detected for some non-github sites.