[Uml-devel] Before releasing umbrello 1.1...

[P. Fleury]

Sebastian Stein wrote:

>P. Fleury <fleury at users.sourceforge.net> [021121 18:08]:
>  
>
>>- should the project be registered under its new name on SF ? like 
>>umbrello.sourceforge.net, along with new mailing list names for users ?
>>    
>>
>
>No, this would maybe mean to loose the whole tracker system and the CVS
>tree. Please don't do it, it is the history of this project.
>  
>
My thinking was very simple: people will look for umbrello on 
sourceforge, on search engines etc. so that the project should be 
registered somewhere with that name too. However, the umbrello.sf.net 
could simply redirect to the uml.sf.net, so that we do not loose the 
history of the project.

Same would apply for www.umbrello.org, which would simply redirect to 
the sf.net site, but would enable some browsers to get there in typing 
only 'umbrello' in the 'location' textfield.


> Mmh, to have such a thing is allways good. For example using it as a
> redirection to our uml.sf.net. But I think Umbrello wouldn't die if we don't
> have this domain name.


No it wouldn't die, but I would be willing to spend the $30 to get that 
name, if the problem is only financial :-)


On another train of thought, if the projects reaches its critical mass, 
we should maybe also think about protecting the name, so as not to 
finish in the same mess as another now defunct project which was called 
NetSaint. If it makes it into KDE, then it will have a broader 
visibility, and KDE has protected most of its names.

--Pascal