Hi, Slight adjustments inline below.
Thanks Dennis and Rob for the comments. The "<link rel" is a great idea. Regards, Dave On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would like to propose the following change in approach for the migration >> of the openoffice.org website to Apache. We should split the site svn tree >> into two separate trees. This will allow us to quickly address the divergent >> license, copyright, and footer issues with clarity and without working >> against the Apache CMS's framework. >> >> Mixing the openoffice.org migration with the incubator site as subfolders is >> now a plroblem. I realized I was about to bloody my forehead - bash my head >> against a wall. >> >> Here are the details. >> >> (1) Split the current ooo/site/trunk/ and create ooo/ooosite/trunk/. Move >> all of the openoffice.org migrated content to the ooo/ooosite/ site tree. >> Each site will now have its own templates/skeleton.html with correct license >> headers, copyrights, and terms. The new part of the svn tree will be ooo/ooo-site/trunk/. >> >> (2) Request that infrastructure attach the new ooo/ooosite/ tree to the cms >> buildbot and webgui. If Infrastructure is willing I propose - >> >> http://ooo-site.apache.org/. It looks like it will be ooo-site.apache.org >> >> If it must start as part of the incubator then >> >> http://incubator.apache.org/ooo/ >> >> (3) Every AOOo committer will be enabled to use the Apache CMS's webgui to >> make edits in order to align the site's policies to the new project. It has >> been confirmed that it is possible to edit the source html in the WebGUI / >> Bookmarklet. As Dennis has written these should be minimal. >> >> (4) No changeover of the current www.openoffice.org until the project agrees. >> > > If you are going to maintain nearly identical content on two websites > simultaneously for any length of time, you might try to inject a <link > rel="canonical" href="http://www.openoffice.org/original-page";> into > the pages served up by the Apache CMS. That will help prevent any > confusion to Google. It essentially instructs Google to consider the > openoffice.org version of the page to be the real one. This is > important for SEO. > > For details: > http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html > > >> I'll start the tree splitting process this Friday in 72 hours allowing >> plenty of time for comments and consensus. >> >> Regards, >> Dave
