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

[Mathieu Roy]

"Brian J. Fox" <address@hidden> said:

>    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.


Indeed, it's important to permit people to manage their website, but
this is not related to the subdomain issue.

The fact that GNU provide 
        http://www.gnu.org/software/XXX
        http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/XXX
and the fact that SF.net provide
        http://XXX.sourceforge.net
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/XXX
is a matter of urls, not of content.


(The idea is to add 
        http://XXX.gnu.org -> http://www.gnu.org/software/XXX)





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