My advise is to keep the domain for some time (years?), after all it'll be the entry point for many users. Redirecting it to the freemarker(.incubator)?.apache.org domain would make an easy transition into ASF.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Jacopo Cappellato < [email protected]> wrote: > I think that the project should keep it, and it should redirect to the > actual domain: > > freemarker.org --> freemarker.incubator.apache.org (now) > freemarker.org --> freemarker.apache.org (after graduation) > > We did something similar with OFBiz and its ofbiz.org domain. > > Jacopo > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Infra has managed to set up the DNS (but some other issue has popped > > up, so now I suddenly can't update the site content, so we are still > > screwed... a different mater anyway). But to my surprise, they > > redirect http://freemarker.org to > > http://freemarker.incubator.apache.org/ (via HTTP 301, temporal > > redirection). When I asked infra about this > > ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/INFRA-10604 > > ), > > they said that it's how it normally goes, and I should speak to > > [email protected] if I want to keep freemarker.org as the > > canonical URL. > > > > So, should I ask them? I believe that's the project's interest, so > > personally, I'm in favor of keeping freemarker.org as the canonical > > project domain, until we graduate from incubation. What do you think? > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Daniel Dekany > > > > > -- Sergio Fernández Partner Technology Manager Redlink GmbH m: +43 6602747925 e: [email protected] w: http://redlink.co
