On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 8:30 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:35 AM Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> wrote: > > > > On 4/13/20 4:44 AM, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > > > Regarding this: is the subdomain going to stay invent.kde.org once we > > > have officially moved? I find it's a bit confusing to use that instead > > > of gitlab.kde.org > > > > I agree. gitlab.kde.org would make more sense to me, mirroring > > phabricator.kde.org. > > > > There is no intention to change the name from invent.kde.org. > > We have a long precedent of not using the name of the software for the > name in DNS, and Gitlab is continuing with this, for example: > - bugs.kde.org is run by Bugzilla > - dot.kde.org is run by Drupal > - techbase.kde.org is run by Mediawiki > - conf.kde.org is run by Frab > - reimbursements.kde.org is run by travel-support-program > - websvn.kde.org is run by ViewVC > - build.kde.org and binary-factory.kde.org are both run by Jenkins > - stats.kde.org is run by Matomo (formerly Piwik) > - survey.kde.org is run by Limesurvey > > For essentially all of the above, calling it after the software > running it makes no sense, and given that in some cases we have > multiple instances would have made things more confusing > (jenkins1.kde.org and jenkins2.kde.org anyone?) > > Phabricator and Reviewboard were the only ones to not follow this > rule, and that was an error on our part. > > Given that there is a popular instance at Gitlab.com, referring to > ours as "KDE Invent" is more likely to ensure newcomers are not > confused (as they may not be aware that you can setup an instance of > Gitlab on your own systems) > > Regards, > Ben
We also use git.kde.org and svn.kde.org. It would too mimic what others are doing at gitlab.gnome.org and gitlab.freedesktop.org. So at the very least we'll want a redirect. Aleix