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

[Mathieu Roy]

"Brian J. Fox" <address@hidden> said:

>    From: Mathieu Roy <address@hidden>
>    Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,
>            address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
>    Date: 07 Apr 2003 17:14:58 +0200
> 
>    We could remove any relatives links but, we want mirroring
>    www.gnu.org, including www.gnu.org/software/emacs.
> 
> In my opinion, mirroring .../software/emacs isn't really important or
> necessary -- it is a relatively low-volume site bandwidth and
> computing-wise.  To have www.gnu.org (which could be mirrored) link to
> emacs.gnu.org would instead give us a chance to load balance our sites
> based on popularity.  I believe that we would derive greater benefit
> from that than mirroring the entire www.gnu.org tree.

I do not agree. IHMO, the problem is not how much a particular project
may be popular but to keep the possibility to mirror with ease (for
instance in an intranet without access to internet).

As, as we start to manage some meta-project by savannah, most parts of
www.gnu.org may end which an alternate, as philosophy.gnu.org could.

The main interest for instance of creating a pseudo-project
philosophy on Savannah would be the ability to give CVS access to some
persons with ease, without giving them write access to www.gnu.org
completely.

So in long terme, this distinction between project and pseudo-project
may be more a pain than an advantage, in this regard.


>    And if we add non-relatif path in www.gnu.org/software/emacs,
>    mirrors wont work (as referring constantly to the master server).
> 
> The number of "off-site" links in emacs.gnu.org that actually get
> visited should be small -- what's the problem with having the
> philosophy page stored on the canonical www.gnu.org?

No problem. There is already the philosophy page on www.gnu.org.

But obviously, if everypage in www.gnu.org points to
http://www.gnu.org for it's content, mirrorings is completely
meaningless. The purpose of a mirror is to be browsed within requests to
the master server.


-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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