new web app urls discussion

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:44:55 -0800
Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah -- if we have the package's app display a link (maybe from the
> sources tab) to the gitweb that might just work.  Alternately, the
> only reasons to keep gitweb are 1) urls and 2) history.  If the
> packages application grows hstory viewing capability, perhaps that
> would not be needed.

Yeah, that could be the case down the road... but pointing to gitweb
now might be fine. 

> >  2. move pkgs.fp.o to git.fp.o or to fedpkg.fp.o and let the new app
> >  take over the other urls.
> > 
> There was a reason we didn't use git.fp.o...  maybe mmcgrath would
> remember better than me.

I think it was pointed at fedorahosted for a while for some reason, so
it was causing a lot of confusion after fedora switched to git for
packages. ;( 

> fedpkg.fp.o would be slightly confusing since we have a fedpkg
> package and becomes moreso if we move fedorahosted projects to
> <appname>.fedorahosted.org domains.

Agreed. I don't like that one. 

> If we do move the gitweb domain we'd be breaking the URLs into gitweb
> which I know we wanted to avoid in the past... May be an opportunity
> to move to cgit (I think that was the name) instead of gitweb,
> though.  That might solve our performance issues.

We could look at it, but I thought it had it's own issues. 

Do we need to preserve links into gitweb? I would think if we provided
a ok 404 type response most people would just go look at the top level
and find what they are looking for. 

But perhaps I am not understanding how often people provide gitweb
urls? 

> I'd love to hear more proposed names.  So far, using the new app as
> the entry point to gitweb and then using packages.apps.fp.o sounds
> like the best plan but it also seems somewhat hacky.

I agree. 

> We should talk about what other things we want to move from pkgdb into
> the new community.  As we talk about a projectwide shift in urls to
> <appname>.apps.fedoraproject.org/, packages.apps.fp.o, and
> pkgdb.apps.fp.o are also confusingly similar.  We could aim to move
> all of the pkgdb functionality into the new packages/community app.
> Or we could make the new community app the front end to it similar to
> how we're talking about for gitweb.  Or we might want to rename in
> some other way.

Yeah, perhaps we could generate a list of all types of urls that pkgdb
exposes now?

admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb
bugz.fedoraproject.org
etc

kevin


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