Hello everyone, I've hit a dead-end in my efforts to donate the cordova.io domain to Apache, so it looks like I'll remain the owner.
I've renewed the domain for 2 years and it will expire next on March 27 2015. Adobe sponsored the renewal cost of approx €60, so thank you Adobe! Cheers, Michael On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Michael Brooks <mich...@michaelbrooks.ca>wrote: > Update from my IRC #asfinfra chat: > > Apache has a strong stance that the domain must be project.apache.org[1]. > Custom domains can be used but must redirect to the original domain > and cannot mask the original domain. Also, custom domains cannot contain > the word "apache". > > There are precedents where domains have been donated to Apache. > Unfortunately, they were not able to provide any specifics. I did find an > example where Oracle donated OpenOffice.org to Apache [2]. However, the > infrastructure guys emphasized that OpenOffice is a special case and has > been an example to a number of rules. > > So, as it stands, I'm where I was before. > > My main outstanding question is: Can I donate cordova.io to Apache. If > so, how? > > [1] https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/what_is_a_podling > [2] https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/if_it_s_not_at > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Michael Brooks <mich...@michaelbrooks.ca > > wrote: > >> Yea, I'll jump into the IRC channel today. I thought I'd check here in >> case anyone has some magical wiki links about it. >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote: >> >>> Ask infra? I'm afraid of what they'll say but probably have to do it. >>> >>> On 2/13/13 10:32 PM, "Michael Brooks" <mich...@michaelbrooks.ca> wrote: >>> >>> >Hi all, >>> > >>> >The domain renewal for cordova.io is due in March 2013. >>> > >>> >How do other Apache projects manage custom domains? I've searched around >>> >apache.org without much luck. >>> > >>> >During our incubation period, there was a brief discussion about the >>> >domain >>> >name, but little progress was made. For myself, there are two questions: >>> > >>> >1. Does the Apache foundation accept domain transfers? >>> > - It seems wrong to have a single person in charge of the domain >>> >ownership. >>> > - Regardless, I wil continue to renew the domain if Apache does not >>> want >>> >the responsibility. >>> > >>> >2. Does Apache infrastructure support custom domains? >>> > - So that we do not need to do the domain redirect. >>> > - Since CouchDB uses redirects as well, I am guessing the answer is >>> "no" >>> > >>> >The only resource that I can find is on website management [1]. However, >>> >it >>> >does not address domain names. >>> > >>> >Thanks, >>> >Michael >>> > >>> >[1] http://apache.org/dev/#web >>> >>> >> >
