I think it is a little overthinking of the issue. I have a hard time to believe that the end of the domain name would have any noticable effect on how many would want to contribute. This might be the case for some unknown project but NetBeans is well known.
That said, a single site is a lot less confusing than having two separate. 2017-05-14 8:35 GMT+02:00 Ognyan Kulev <[email protected]>: > Dear all, > > I think it's better to have single netbeans.apache.org. There are no > technical obstacles for redirecting from netbeans.org. > > It's true that netbeans.org is the name that people know but this is also > the name that people connect to corporate-developed NetBeans. Having > netbeans.apache.org as primary website will send a message that NetBeans > is now an open community that welcomes participation by Apache rules. If > netbeans.org is left as marketing and consumer website, this leaves the > impression that we produce quality product in the same "closed" process as > before (although AFAIK it is not entirely true for the nowadays NetBeans) > and NetBeans don't need participation in its development. > > I added the following to https://cwiki.apache.org/confl > uence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=69408938 : > > * There are no technical obstacles to keeping all netbeans.org links > perfectly working by using redirection. > * Single netbeans.apache.org will send clear message that NetBeans is > open community that welcomes development involvement. It is also "cutting > of ties" with the perception of the previous "corporate model". > * There will always be some confusion why there is such split. > * OpenOffice.org is not a good example for splitting because the name of > the software is "OpenOffice.org" so they have to keep it. Also, OOo is > consumer software so it's not expected that users will participate in its > development. > * Example of using the old domain is groovy-lang.org but they decided to > not use groovy.apache.org at all, so again it's single domain for the > project and no split. > > Best regards, > Ognyan >
