calligra.org

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Saturday 12 November 2011 Nov, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> On Friday 11 November 2011, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> > On 11 November 2011 21:48, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> > > On Friday 11 November 2011 Nov, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >> 
> > >> Yesterday, calligra.org became available, so I have snatched it. So now
> > >> we have to decide if we want to switch our domain name for the website
> > >> from calligra-suite.org to just calligra.org. If we do decide so, we
> > >> would keep calligra-suite.org pointing to calligra.org for a little
> > >> while.
> > > 
> > > Hard call... There are already so many links to calligra-suite.org, so
> > > I'm afraid we will need both for a long time.
> > 
> > I second that.
> It is not that a big deal, we would keep calligra-suite.org for a few years, 
> showing a message like this "The website has moved, please update your 
> bookmark to http://www.calligra.org/bla/bla/bla. You will be redirected there 
> in 10 seconds."

Yes, that's what I meant.

> 
> Who remembers the original domain name of ubuntu ? (I will let you guess), 
> they have kept their original DNS for at least a year, maybe two, until they 
> switch to ubuntu.com. And Ubuntu was allready very much more popular than we 
> are.

ubuntu-linux.org?

> 
> Just to say, that changing the main DNS is not such a big deal, yes sure, it 
> would have been better to have it a year ago, but we can keep calligra-
> suite.org, to avoid a break in the traffic.
> 
> So the question really is which DNS is better calligra.org and calligra-
> suite.org. Personnaly, I agree with Helder, that calligra.org is much better, 
> especially since our logo is "calligra", we refer to ourself as the "calligra 
> project" packages are called "calligra", etc... The "suite" is just the set of 
> our applications.

Yes, I agree as well. It sort of goes without saying. Plus, it'll save wear and tear on my fingers when I need to link to calligra  :-)



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Boudewijn Rempt
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