On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Shane Curcuru <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/14/2011 7:56 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > I've been pondering what it takes to choreograph migration of the live > > OpenOffice.org properties into Apache custodianship. > ...snip... > > Great starts all. > > Where is the noodling and proposed list of what domains we want to keep > (i.e. host as *.oo.o to keep links, or host at ooo.a.o/* because it's > project oriented information) and what ones we're not going to keep? > I would preffer an *.oo.o is easier to manage and recognized, create shorter URLs and also reinforce branding. > > In particular, other than keeping some of the highly linked informational > domains from oo.o, I would expect that there would be significantly fewer > major domain names being used in the future project. But maybe that's just > me. > Surely many projects are not mantained anymore or their existance could be reincorporated into larger projects like development.openoffice.org as you could see on the traffic of the mailing list some components experience a low volume of traffic that could be re-incorporated into a larger project. Example the CD-ROM project back into distribution. > > A parallel discussion might be how we use oo.o versus ooo.a.o in the > future. The development core of the project needs to be on ooo.a.o (or > whatever name y'all choose), as do the actual future download sites. > > I'm thinking of oo.o as an informational portal, mostly with either > immediate redirects or with informational pages that point people towards > the appropriate ooo.a.o pages. Then we can in the future consider adding > additional user-based information on the whole OOo ecosystem to the oo.o > site. > > One important aspect is to ensure that user expectations for Apache > software are met. That means anything served off of an *.apache.orgdomain > must meet the project branding requirements, be under the Apache > license, etc. For normal projects, we'd ask that oo.o redirect to the > ooo.a.o domain, but in this case, with the huge and valuable history of the > OOo project, I think we'll end up treating oo.o subtly different than other > Apache domains in terms of what content we're comfortable hosting there. > > - Shane > > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org fingerprint: E62B CF77 1BEA 0749 C0B8 50B9 3DE6 A84A 68D0 72E6
