Re: Propose / Plan to move the wiki from www.ovirt.org/wiki to wiki.ovirt.org and add a redirect so the old links works.

On 07/13/2012 12:10 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: >On 07/13/2012 08:39 AM, Robert Middleswarth wrote: >>I propose we move the wiki from www.ovirt.org/wiki to >>wiki.ovirt.org and add redirects to www.ovirt.org/wiki >> >>Why this makes since. It will make it easier to break up the site >>into 2 servers at some point. Including quaid idea of using >>openshift. Before we make a change like this I would like to hear >>from everyone if they think this is a good idea and if you see any >>issues I am missing? >I personally have always preferred using a subdomain in this way >instead of "everything in www/". > >The counter argument always made was the concern about how subdomains >are geeky, confusing, and unfriendly to people who think every website >starts with 'www'. Thus not a technical but cultural issue. > >I think there are two responses to that argument: > >* oVirt is more on the geeky end - it's does fairly deep plumbing, and >it's ultimately for serious sysadmin work. We can err on the side of >geeky and be safe. > >* The real way people find the wiki is not by typing and guessing >subdomain v. subdirectory. It's by having it in the menu on the >website, which we will fix. > >Ultimately, we can separate out the services in to subdomain or >subdirectory, both will work from different hosts, etc. From an Infra >view, though, I find subdomains easier to work with mentally, in >diagrams, when talking about services[1], etc. Change is complete. The www.ovirt.org/wiki now redirects to wiki.ovirt.org/ . Enjoy the change.