[Distutils] Provide separate development and documentation URLs in PyPI metadata?

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 at 10:06 Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017, at 04:58 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> > On Jun 25, 2017, at 11:33 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > >I'd favour "Participate" over any variant of "Contribute", as without
> > >context, "Contribute" makes me think of financial support in the
> > >crowdfunding/tip jar sense.
> >
> > "Participate" may mean two different things.
> >
> > * Here's the development home, with a repo and issue tracker,
> > contributions
> >   welcome!
> >
> > * Here's the mailing list or other forum where we discuss the future of
> >   Guido's Magical Mystery Time Machine.
>
> Perhaps this points to labelling URLs with nouns rather than verbs:
> things like 'mailing list', 'source code' or 'issue tracker' seem less
> ambiguous than 'participate' or 'contribute'.
>

I agree with Thomas on this one. Seeing a link that says "Participate" just
feels like it's missing an exclamation point and subtext saying I could
earn $2,000/week from it. ;)

Since this has turned into bikeshedding over names when we have a general
metadata solution, I've filed https://github.com/takluyver/flit/issues/116
and consider my question answered. :)
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