"Fedora" in a domain name

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:32:37AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>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?

To me, yes.  Thanks Paul.

josh