I have stopped reading the Apache Incubator mailing list some time ago due to such debates.
If you think that it is important to create new senseless rules for new projects - do so. But please do not create new useless work for those projects which already exist in the Incubator. Thanks, Andreas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:15 PM Subject: RE: [Website] Project homepage > Dion Gillard wrote: > > James Strachan wrote: > > > > Lenya, which has a URI, http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya/, > > > > outside of the incubator domain. > > > Hmmm, how come Lenya got a URI? Can we have one too? I guess so if > > > Lenya already has? > > As an outsider, this is very confusing. Lenya 'is not an ASF project', as > > it's being incubated, but the URL sure makes it seem like it is a sub > > project of cocoon. > > In total fairness to Lenya, the first paragraph of their home page talks > about incubation. However, I agree as a policy matter that the site should > be moved, with a redirect put in place, as described below. After a project > leaves the incubator, a redirect can be put in the incubator's .htaccess to > reference its new location. > > To demonstrate the technique, and further illustrating why web-sites should > be maintained in CVS (as Lenya's is :-)), I just issued the following > command: > > cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvspublic \ > checkout -d lenya cocoon-site/site/lenya > > from /www/incubator.apache.org. You will notice that a copy of the lenya > site is now at http://incubator.apache.org/lenya. All that is left for the > Cocoon project to do now is to place: > > Redirect Permanent /lenya http://incubator.apache.org/lenya > > in .htaccess in their site root, and the location change should be > transparent to all. I won't do that, though. That is a change for them to > make. > > When the lenya site is updated, someone just needs to do: > > cd /www/incubator.apache.org/lenya > cvs update -Pd > > rather than doing the exact same thing in /www/cocoon.apache.org/lenya. > > The process is simple, and should not be disruptive to their progress at > all. It is actually rather cool that things can be this simple. > > --- Noel > > cc: lenya-dev@ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
