++1 AH!! Jürgen said the magic word: PORTAL. Now I can say something that has been nagging at me without words.
It will be extremely valuable for the openoffice.org web site to remain the portal of the openoffice.org lineage, where the entry to Apache OpenOffice is more tightly-coupled but not exclusive. And user support is for the lineage, even though activity may become more about Apache OpenOffice releases in the future. One concern about changing the URLs for the wiki and the forums: This will break absolute bookmarks and cross-references from users and from elsewhere in the site, including in the forums, unless the existing URLs are (also) preserved. This also impacts existing search-engine indexing. I would rather preserve those URLs. The shorter ones are nice and the old ones could redirect to them. And I wouldn't do this quickly unless it is clearly a no-brainer and the redirect/rewrite works perfectly. It is also something that could be done independently of all the static-page remodeling that is needed. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 02:25 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rationalizing two OpenOffice websites it sounds like a Déjà vu and i think we had already a discussion that goes in this direction. Yes, i totally agree on this separation and it makes sense to me. Moving forward with this separation we need much less migration and can concentrate on the most important pages of the main portal (for users) www.openoffice.org. Hopefully we can change wiki.services.openoffice.org to wiki.openoffice.org and can redirect the old Url to the new short one. and the same for the forum users.services.openoffice.org The portal side provide the main info about the product (mainly marketing material), provide the download (with the infra structure behind), but also provides the entry points to the wiki, to the forum and of course openoffice.apache.org for project members. I really like that Juergen On 11/22/11 12:46 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > We have with this project something that most other Apache projects > don't have and which the legacy OOo project never had. We have two > independent websites. > [ ... ] > > For example, could we have something like this: > > 1) www.openoffice.org is the website for the OpenOffice product. It > is the end user site, focused on their interactions with the product. > So download, help, extensions, support. It is not how they interact > with the project. It serves the narrow focus on the product. > > > 2) incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg (eventually > openoffice.apache.org) on the other hand is where the project members > work and where the public (includiing users) interacts with the > project. Not the product, but the project. > > This dual website is quite commonly used for managing large and > important brands. For example, the consumer, when interfacting with > the brand Pepsi and Pepsi products goes to: > > http://www.pepsi.com > > But the person who wants to learn more about the company goes to another URL: > > http://www.pepsico.com/ > > Navigating between then is possible via a link on the page footer. > But generally each site is optimized for its target audience.
