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Re:Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than... by ddevault on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:42PM (#24024137)
See my comment here which explains how "go-source" works:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24024130

It doesn't work on godoc.org not because they don't recognize your domain, but because cgit doesn't have go-source meta tags.

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Re:Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than... by throwayws on Sunday August 02, 2020 @02:06AM (#24026705)
There was a proposal to add a new go-source-2 meta tag, but that was abandoned because a lot of code hosting sites would not have been supported yet:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39559

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40477

That is why they decided to turn it into an internal/source package inside pkgsite first to have test cases for a later go-source-2. If your site does not show source links on pkg.go.dev then add a comment to issue 40477 above and an exception will be added.

- internal/source: https://github.com/golang/pkgsite/blob/master/internal/sourc...

Note1: Maybe mention this on your website because that took a little to find. It does not fit into the narrative though.

Note2: Requiring frontends to offer meta tags is the only way to make code discoverable with the url alone. cgit not offering this is on cgit and not on Go/pkgsite (haven't checked whether they do)

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