Incidentally we could get Maven to automatically generate URLs of the form
http://www.apache.org/~username/
then it'd be the apache committer's responsibility to create either a .forward or a html home page. How's that sound?
It seems to me that you would generate a lot of 404's. And the consensus from the discussion that lead up to this prototype is that links should be explicitly opt in, and that people should be encouraged to host them off site (note: some expressed this in more stronger terms, others expressed a more tolerant view). Also, not all committers have access to daedalus, and some people have hosted other content there without intending it to be a home page.
All in all, my suggestion is that if no URL is provided, then treat this as an indication that no further information is available.
- Sam Ruby
