Some software require user data like name and address to download it. It does not matter what you put in, so we can use fake data.
An example is DaVinci Resolve which we are currently packaging in PR #152113.
Arch Linux uses this fake data:
_reqjson="{ \
\"firstname\": \"Arch\", \
\"lastname\": \"Linux\", \
\"email\": \"someone@archlinux.org\", \
\"phone\": \"202-555-0194\", \
\"country\": \"us\", \
\"state\": \"New York\", \
\"city\": \"AUR\", \
\"product\": \"DaVinci Resolve\" \
}"
Since it does not matter what we put in, we should not spend too much time bikeshedding about it, but i think it’s an opportunity to advertise our project.
To make it more unlikely that the download fails, because we use a city that is not in their form drop down, we should use a real location. Our users are all around the world, so i suggest we use the location where the project started and make it popular in the vendors stats!
First Name: NixOS
Last Name: Linux (that’s our family)
Email: someone@nixos.org (maybe use a real e-mail to reach package maintainers instead?)
Phone: +31 71 452 5670 (from Fake Netherlands Phone Numbers (Array) - United States - Fake Number)
Country: Netherlands
State/Province: Province of Utrecht
Postcode: 3584CX
City: Utrecht
Address: Heidelberglaan 200
(NixOS started in 2003 as a research project at Utrecht University)
Since this topic relates to marketing, i invite the marketing team to leave their opinion.
My goal here is to decide which data package maintainers should use and document it, so no one has to spend time thinking about it in the future.