[Savannah-hackers] Re: address@hidden: virtual hostnames for gnu projects]

[Ron Peterson]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 04:59:27PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote:

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> From: Ron Peterson <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: virtual hostnames for gnu projects
> Organization: The GNU Project
> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:39:15 -0500
> 
> A short while ago, RMS asked whether there would be any issues with
> having a virtual hostname to match gnu project names.  I.E. -
> FOO.gnu.org, in addition to www.gnu.org/software/FOO.
> 
> Maybe.
> 
> How should project html files construct URL's?  Say project FOO has
> FOO.html, and FOO-credits.html.  How should FOO.html refer to
> FOO-credits.html?  A relative URL would work, in both cases, but that
> is not the current gnu.org convention.  And how should FOO.html refer to
> BAR.html, belonging to project BAR?
> 
> ...
> 
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> 
> This discussion never lifted off.  I probably should have escalated it
> earlier.
> 
> I think this is something we need to resolve before implementing
> virtual hostnames for projects.
> 
> I think the simplest solution would be to designate one of FOO.gnu.org
> or www.gnu.org/software/FOO the *canonical* site, and make all project
> links to that URL.  So the project homepage could be found at either
> location, but any other project web pages would only exist at one
> location.
> 
> Else we introduce relative links to gnu.org web pages.  But only for
> project pages, when they refer to themselves.  (We don't want
> FOO.gnu.org to refer to ../licenses/licenses.html, for example.)  This
> seems confusing.
> 
> Other suggestions?

I just realized that I inadvertently neglegted to copy my fellow
webmasters.  They should of course be part of this discussion.  Sorry.

(Whoo Hoo!  Patriots!)

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