Re: More domain name confusion?

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

>
> www.gnuplot.info should *always* be the canonical site!

Sorry, but I'd like to challenge that.

The master site is gnuplot.sourceforge.net.

At least, that's where the master copies of
all files live. It's also the site that the developer
team has access to.

I think it's great that somebody (Clark) has
registered a more informative domain name
(and pays for it). (Thanks, Clark!) But I don't 
understand why that domain name is not either 
an alias or a redirect to the SourceForge site.

I think it is highly confusing that the site that
*appears* to be canonical (at least by its 
domain name) is in fact a merely *mirror*.
(And it is confusing and not widely understood
even by the developer team - as demonstrated 
by the discussion a few weeks ago on this mailing
list.)

It's great that there is a mirror - in case 
SourceForge is down or not accessible. 
But it should be made clearer that it is 
exactly that: a mirror. 

I am also uncomfortable with the idea of 
hosting the "canonical" site for a community
project like gnuplot on a server that only the 
owner has access to. (Single point of failure,
all that.)

What is wrong with having the "canonical"
site be the SourceForge site? (I heard the
argument that Virginia Tech has better 
internet connectivity than SourceForge,
but I find that hard to believe. And even if
true, SourceForge's infrastructure seems
at least sufficient.)

I'd vote for making gnuplot.sourceforge.net
be the "canonical" site (and have gnuplot.info
point to it), and making Clark's site at VT the
"official" mirror.

Best,

		Ph.


>
> --ckg
>
>
> --
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...>
> Date: Sunday, Sep 20, 2009 8:03 pm
> Subject: Re: More domain name confusion?
> To: "Philipp K. Janert" <ja...@ie...>
> CC: gnu...@li...
>
> >On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> >> The domain
> >
> > 	www.gnuplot.vt.edu
> > has been coming up among the top 10 links
> > on Google for "gnuplot" for a few weeks now.
> >
> >> Nothing there yet.
> >
> >No, and let's hope it goes away altogether Real Soon Now.
> >
> >Allin Cottrell
> >
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