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

[Robert Middleswarth]

On 07/13/2012 12:10 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
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> 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.

Thanks
Robert
> - - Karsten
>
> [1] I'm one of those who often shorthands e.g. 'wiki.ovirt.org' to
> 'wiki.o.o' in IRC, email, etc.
>
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