From: Allin C. <cot...@wf...> - 2009-09-23 14:37:20
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Like others, I thank Clark Gaylord for his history of the gnuplot domain issue, and more substantively, for all the work he has done on behalf of gnuplot. That said, I think sourceforge has now matured to the point where it no longer makes sense to think of gnuplot.sf.net as a sort of "pre-production" site. People will expect that if a project has a presence on sf, that is the project's canonical site. Some projects (I think) have an sf presence for downloadable files, version control, etc., but choose to maintain a separate "shop window" website on the pattern foo.org. In that case the sf website, foo.sf.net (as opposed to the "project page"), would be a redirect to foo.org. That would be a possible pattern for gnuplot to adopt (with gnuplot.info == foo.org). However, I agree with Philipp Janert that the present situation -- where the supposedly canonical site is in fact a mirror of the truly primary site, with some synchronization problems to boot -- is not very satisfactory. Allin Cottrell |