> From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 December 2002 16:34
> Yeah.. I'm confused...what does ANY of the issues brought up have to do > with creating the dns entry? It seems some folks are voting/debating > the home directories themselves. Those are already there and I assume > that decision was already made. I suppose you could propose they be > shut down, but I DON'T see what creating the DNS entry has to do with > that... But I'm kinda dull, so maybe if someone explains it, I'll get it. Right now the homepages aren't linked to from anywhere and certainly not promoted. Creating the dns entry will seem like promoting the use of the homepages. "people".apache.org or "community".apache.org will imply that such a domain entails all the people of the ASF or the entire community of the ASF. This simply can never be true since not everyone has time to create and maintain a 'community' area in his homepage area. Some of us barely have spare time and are likely to contribute to their projects rather than maintain their 'community' area. So, in the end, only the people with lots of time on their hands, or simply the most vocal ones, will (likely) be perceived (by visitors of community.apache.org) to _be_ the ASF, instead of a few faces within the ASF. I'm moving my -0 to a -1 on this basis. It would be something else if community.apache.org were only accessible by committers... Sander
