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From: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Rod Taylor <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeroen T. Vermeulen <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Swan <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] The Name Game: postgresql.net vs.
Date: 12 Mar 2004 14:52:04 -0500
Message-ID: <1079121124.27322.13.camel@camel> (raw)
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On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 13:36, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <[email protected]> writes:
> > the projects site will not be under postgresql.org ... postgresql.net is
> > available for it, but not postgresql.org ... we are keeping that domain
> > "clean" for any future stuff we want to do with the core project ...
> 
> I agree we don't want <project>.postgresql.org, as that is likely to
> risk name conflicts.  However, that objection doesn't apply to
> <project>.projects.postgresql.org, or variants of that.  So far the only
> objection I've heard to that sort of setup is "the domain name is too
> long", and as others have pointed out, it's a weak objection.
> 
> Since we do already own pgfoundry.org, could we satisfy everybody by
> dual-naming the project sites?  That is, have both
> 	<project>.pgfoundry.org
> 	<project>.pgfoundry.postgresql.org
> point to the same place?
> 

I hate to be the fly in this ointment, but wouldn't
<project>.projects.postgresql.org be better?  especially if you could
then point people to projects.postgresql.org as the main place to start
looking for projects related to postgresql. 

Robert Treat
-- 
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL




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