Rodney Waldhoff wrote: ...
I understand the way .htaccess works. I would still suggest this isn't
quite "transparent".
There is a reason why we want incubating projects to be published under the incubator URL, and this reason has come out of the current incubations that do not have this rule.
Incubating projects are *not* fully accepted Apache projects, and users should *not* think that Apache endorses them as projects that will outlive their original creators. Publishing the site under the destination gives a perception that it's already done, that it's already Apache stuff, minus some legal details, while it's not the case.
Look, some of this incubation stuff is not nice, it apparently doesn't give anything to the project. I know you would all like to just do without it and move into Apache and who cares. But some things have to be done, and some things *do* have an impact that is greater than single projects see.
*Every* project comes here saying "well, but I'm different, I don't need this and that, come on, take it easier on me". So in the end, they are not different at all in this ;-)
We even had to make a FAQ for this:
http://incubator.apache.org/faq.html#can_Incubation_be_skipped
Sorry for this rant, but I keep hearing these things over and over each day, and it gets really tiresome at times.
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.
Because they have started incubation without the rule. Our policy is not to change the rules to incubating projects if not extremely necessary. This thing is important but not critical, so it was not *that* important to do it.
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