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

[Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:43:03PM -0400, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
> 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.
I fully agree with this and actually typed wiki.ovirt.org many times.