"Fedora" in a domain name

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:32:27AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:28:14AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:40:10AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >> On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:08:46PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> >> >On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:28:22PM -0500, Scott Williams wrote:
> >> >> Rahul,
> >> >> 
> >> >> Jesse Keating still owns fedoralegacy.org and so far has requested we
> >> >> not use that name.  Tentatively looking at FedoraForever.org.  We
> >> >> would like to use Fedora in the domain name since we will be packaging
> >> >> security updates explicitly for EOL Fedora versions.  I have also
> >> >> looked into working under Fedora Unity, but at this time we will
> >> >> remain separate projects.
> >> >
> >> >Any reason why a separate domain name is needed?  Why not something
> >> >like eol-security.fedoraproject.org for a server name, which FI can
> >> >redirect to your hosting service?
> >> 
> >> Because that has the implication that it's part of the fedora project,
> >> which I don't think is the case here.  At least not yet.
> >
> >Yeah, but I tend to dislike the practice of forcing a new
> >idea/subproject to have to distinguish (at a domain level) it's place
> >in the Fedora universe.  Seems like it adds a lot of overhead to push
> >past the status quo.
> >
> >Can't we, with website verbage, control the message we want end users
> >to understand?  If not, is another domain really going to make that
> >much of a difference in that message being understood?
> 
> We could try, but people hardly ever read that stuff.  My primary
> concern is getting bugs/requests for packages in the main Fedora
> bugzilla and lists for stuff that is EOL.  We have an EOL for a reason.
> 
> That's possible whether a new domain is created or not.  I'm just
> wondering if it would exacerbate the situation even more if it was
> just a sub-domain of fp.o

We recently purchased the "fedoracommunity.org" domain, and I think
that would be a good place to establish this effort -- in other words,
"eol.fedoracommunity.org" or some similar URL.  It makes clear that
the project is part of a community effort as opposed to being part of
the official "fedoraproject.org" domain.

I'm not going to short-circuit the discussion of the value or scope of
this project, just wanted to clarify that we do have an appropriate
domain available.  Does this sound amenable?

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