[Savannah-hackers] Re: XXX.gnu.org

[Richard Stallman]

I sent my original message to webmasters-comment thinking that it was
the way to reach the webmasters without going thru RT.  But it doesn't
work for that.  (There was supposed to be one, but I cannot find it in
`aliases'.)  So I am sending this to `webmasters' to include them in
the discussion, and including my original message to show them
what the issue is.

> A year ago we had the idea that each GNU package could have
> its own host name, XXX.gnu.org.
> 
> 1. Has any work been done to implement this?
> 
> 2. Is there any difficulty in implementing this?



    Care will have to be taken to make sure that a conflict case is handled
    properly.  If a GNU app were approved called 'fr' for instance.

Why would that be a problem?  There is no fr.gnu.org now.
(We have an es.gnu.org, but that is a special case.)

Anyway, two-letter names for packages are rather unusual.
We could avoid those conflicts without great difficulty.



From: Mathieu Roy <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,
          address@hidden,  address@hidden
Subject: Re: XXX.gnu.org

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> said:

> A year ago we had the idea that each GNU package could have
> its own host name, XXX.gnu.org.
> 
> 1. Has any work been done to implement this?
> 
> 2. Is there any difficulty in implementing this?

I think it should rely on Savannah database: 
        it easy to fetch projects account names and use them as
        subdomain

If a special export is needed (database dump, xml), a simple script
to do it may be added in savannah/backend/gnu-specific

Regards,



-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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