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

[Brian J. Fox]

   From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
   Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 03:13:19 -0500

       I still don't know why PROJECT.gnu.org is a good idea, though.

   I think the advantage is that it would provide a much shorter URL
   for each GNU package.  Also, I think sourceforge does this,
   and some developers wished that savannah would do it too.

At sourceforge, you get two pages.  One you build, called address@hidden,
and one that is built dynamically by the system, called
sf.net/projects/foo.

The advantage is that you can track the stuff that is important to
your package which probably isn't in the basic project maintenance
page.  For example, a free DVD player project might have a lot of
political information on their dvd.gnu.org page which wouldn't be
of interest or importance on their www.gnu.org/projects/dvd page.

Brian
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