On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 12:41 AM Justin Mclean <justinmcl...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > >> - What the situation with https://netbeans.org website? > > > > That question is too open-ended. What is your concern? > > No specific concern other than a general branding one. It’s slightly > unusual for a podling to graduate with it’s previous website still in > existence. For (large) pre-existing communities, Branding has stated their existing site is Proper. That we should not gum up the works, and force a change. Nascent communities have been required to move their locus. That said: the prior site is allowed for downstream users. The *community* needs to move to *.apache.org. We have three sites currently operating under non-apache domains: openoffice.org, groovy-lang.org, and netbeans.org. (mighta missed one, but beside the point) ... each of these are to support past/current communities, and have received a +1 from Brand to do so. We also have a counter-point where the established subversion.org/com/net decided to forgo those, and redirect all of them to subversion.apache.org. Infrastructure is kind of a gateway on domain handling. We've seen this, and we work with Brand. I would describe the issue as "Communities MUST construct their presences as FOO.apache.org. For historical purposes they MAY maintain $BAR-DOMAIN." ... Infra has shut down many requests for projects wanting non-apache domains. Totally uncool. Cheers, -g
