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.

[–] robinm@fosstodon.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] robinm@fosstodon.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

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...