Re: lilypond blog address: final decision. please state your opinion.

[Urs Liska]

Am 20.06.2013 11:17, schrieb Phil Holmes:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janek Warchoł" 
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> To: "LilyPond Users" <address@hidden>; "Graham Percival" 
> <address@hidden>; "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <address@hidden>; 
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> Subject: lilypond blog address: final decision. please state your 
> opinion.
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>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to make the final decision about the blog address.  The
> > previous discussion ("maybe we could use blog.lilypond.org as the
> > blog's address?") gave me an impression that some of you don't want
> > the blog to be on blog.lilypond.org, but despite the many emails that
> > were written i really don't have a clear idea why this would be bad.
> > After all:
> > - as you can see, the blog contains serious content and i get positive
> > feedback about it.  There's nothing there that could make LilyPond
> > look silly - quite the contrary.
> > - There are good chances that the blog will remain active, especially
> > if the authors (currently me and Urs) get some encouragement from the
> > project leaders - for example by being allowed to use
> > blog.lilypond.org address.
> > - if the blog dies, you can always "turn off" the domain.
> >
> > I really don't see any way in which using blog.lilypond.org as the
> > blog's address could hurt anyone.  Of course, if you won't agree, i'll
> > just purchase a lilypondblog.org domain or something.
So after all you don't like the idea of lilynet.net/blog anymore?
> > cheers,
> > janek
>
>
> I've no personal objection to using that as an address, and I doubt 
> whether others would.  My question concerns the technicalities: how 
> would a sub-domain of lilypond.org be registered?  Who would do it? 
> How would a blog on that sub-domain be hosted?

Someone who volunteers to host the blog (that is currently Paul Morris 
and me) has to register the domain as an "external registration". As far 
as my provider told me this would mean that the domain is registered 
twice, once normally and "externally" in addition.
I assume this involves the current owner of the domain approving this 
additional registration.

Then the nameserver on lilypond.org has to be updated as to direct 
requests for the subdomain blog.lilypond.org to the IP of the other's 
server.
The other's server has to be set up as to answer requests to 
blog.lilypond.org.

All this would be feasible AFAICS.

HTH understanding
Urs

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