On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Rodney Waldhoff wrote: > > > I am as interested in making Axion's incubation status clear as you are. > > > Some sort of "incubation status" notice [or logo] > > You mean like http://incubator.apache.org/images/apache-incubator-logo.png, > along with a well-placed disclaimer like found at > http://ws.apache.org/jaxme/ and http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya/?
Yes. Weren't those essentially my examples? Digging a bit futher, I note there is suggested text in the "Incubation Policy" docs. > Rodney, I am sympathetic to your build issues. And I believe that you are. > OTOH, there is the branding issue that Tetsuya raised, ironically making > the opposite point than he intended. I'm not sure Tetsuya's concerns are the same as mine here. In fact, I'm pretty sure there not. > You have certain technical issues related to your build process > (honestly, temporary page ranking is not something I rate highly in > context). (trouble is it's not always so "temporary", especially when you find yourself on a blacklist or penalty list) > Do you have a proposal that would make everyone happy? Apparently not yet ;) > Would a symlink arrangement help resolve the build and URL issues? For > example, you could build and install the site as normal, but .htaccess > would redirect HTTP requests to the incubator domain, which would have a > link to your file structure. I think it might. We may need to poke at that from both the db and incubator infrastrure perspectives a bit more to figure it out, but it seems like something like that should work. The DB Project doesn't have anything like incubator-site, its generated files are not stored in CVS, so a simple .htaccess redirect might suffice after all. We'd want to ensure two things: (1) that users can't get to http://db.apache.org/axion without being redirected to http://incubator.apache.org/, and (2) that updates to axion's site docs, or to relevant bits of the general db-site docs, get reflected in the http://incubator.apache.org/axion site in a reasonable timeframe. The impact this will have on db-shared pages like http://db.apache.org/whoweare.html and http://db.apache.org/mail.html are of some concern, but this seems like an issue for the DB, not Incubator, Project to work out. I'm also a little concerned that this domain shift may wreak havoc on relative links (since the DB site build will assume the host is db.apache.org), but I suppose we can slog through those one way or another. (It's the little issues like these that make me believe this is creating more effort than will (the ASF) gain from it.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
