Thomas Haller commented on a discussion: 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/586#note_1135067

Historic reasons. NetworkManager (the core package) is both a GNOME and a 
freedesktop project. That is, we use gitlab.freedesktop.org but the mailinglist 
and https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager/ from GNOME. I guess the 
idea of this was that NetworkManager (core) is not only relevant for GNOME 
desktop and that freedesktop.org would the organization for fixing bug 1 and 
making year of Linux Desktop. I am too young for this :)

network-manager-applet, libnma and most (all?) VPN plugins are strictly GNOME 
projects.

This inconsistency doesn't really bother me and I would avoid investing the 
(substantial) work of moving projects around.

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I don't know about NetworkManager-pptp. If PPTP is insecure and shouldn't be 
used, then that is the users (recommended) choice by not using 
NetworkManager-pptp. I don't think we need to enforce that by making it harder 
to use it. Also, I don't think people make the active choice to run a PPTP 
Linux hosted VPN services. Instead, it might be a company that requires the 
user to use it. At this point, the user still has the choice to not use PPTP 
and open an issue with that company. But if a user really really wants, I think 
we should try to make that possible (at least, as far as an implementation 
exists). 
Granted, the project saw *very* little activity in the past few years. That 
might mean nobody is using it (good) or it just works (also good). Hard to say 
which is the case, but again, I am fine with still having the project there. If 
you have more knowledge about PPTP, what would be good to have the README 
explain the problems and make good recommendations.

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