On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Ceki Gülcü wrote: > > Rodney Waldhoff wrote: > > > My concern isn't the difficulty of copying files from one directory to > > > another. It is pointing an exisiting user, developer and google-bot > > > community from http://axion.tigris.org, then to > > > http://incubator.apache.org/axion, then to http://db.apache.org/axion, > > > all in a matter of weeks. What does all this disruption buy for us? > > > I am also worried about the point raised by Rodney. > > There should be no need to "point" people at anything. Asking around, I am > told that the problem with tigris is simply that their system does not > support adding redirects. That is not the case here. So, unfortunately in > the case of axion, you do have to tell them to come to Apache, but we can > handle it transparently once here.
I understand the way .htaccess works. I would still suggest this isn't quite "transparent". As evidence of this, I'll note that despite how technically easy it is to "automatically" make this move, it has not been done for the 5 or more projects currently hosted at their "destination" URL. > > Personally, I do not have a problem if you chose to publish > db.apache.org/axion. as the normative URL for people. Then in > /www/db.apache.org/.htaccess, added: > > Redirect Permanent /axion http://incubator.apache.org/axion > > People visiting the normal location would be automatically relocated to the > URL within the Incubator (thus satisfying the request that we make the > projects's status clear) for the duration of Incubation, however long or > short a period. > > When the project promoted, you would remove it, and we'd add: > > Redirect Permanent /axion http://db.apache.org/axion > > for anyone who had bookmarked the incubation site. Thus we would continue > to provide transparency and automation. > > --- Noel > - Rod <http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
