2012/2/26 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>: > On 26/02/2012 RGB ES wrote: >> >> 2012/2/25 Roberto Galoppini: >>> >>> As of today, the Extensions website is available at this address >>> located on our domain, at the following address: >>> http://aoo-extensions.sourceforge.net. >>> We've modified it to work under whatever domain name the community >>> chooses ... >> >> Just a general question: is it possible to redirect the old address to >> the new one? As someone noticed on the forums(1), the old address is >> build-in on OOo > > > As I understand the message above, this is taken for granted, i.e., the > final domain name will be decided by this AOO community and (even if it is > different from extensions.services.openoffice.org) the existing domain will > also be redirected to it. There are no reasons for doing it differently, are > there any? > > >> BTW, the new address is advertised on the ES, EN, IT and (thanks to >> Floris V) Dutch forums. >> (1) >> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?p=222419#p222419 > > > Thanks! Advertised to the Italian users list too > http://s.apache.org/dkQ > but with the important difference that I explicitly stated that the > aoo-extensions.sf.net URL is temporary. At least that was my understanding. > > In other words: I expect that, if the new site is working, we decide to make > it available as extensions.openoffice.org or > extensions.services.openoffice.org and that, in any case, the old > extensions.services.openoffice.org is fully redirected to the new website, > for the obvious reasons stated above (updates, hardcoded links). > > If this is the common understanding, the Bugzilla issue > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=118976 > should be updated with this information. > > And, regarding other comments in the forum thread above: > - A user stated that he can't login with his OOo username, but it worked for > me and apparently for the other people who posted here. > - Hagar Delest changed existing links into aoo-extensions.sf.net but I'm not > sure this is right: I think it is the same stuation we have for the forum, > where we have a *.apache.org URL and user.services.openoffice.org but we (at > least I do) use only the openoffice.org address commonly. > > Regards, > Andrea.
Changing the address takes almost no time (I did it on the Spanish forums), so we will change it again if the url changes again. I see no problem there. Cheers Ricardo
