new web app urls discussion

[Christopher Meng]

How about appengine.fedoraproject.org ?

On 1/21/12, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 03:11:41PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>> Summary from the meeting:
>>
>> Today in the infrastructure meeting we started talking about how to
>> move the new packages and tagger apps into production and where we want
>> them to live in the layout of urls.
>>
>>
>> Goals:
>> 1. simple for users and remember
>> 2. not overlapping with any of the older apps or existing urls
>> 3. futureproofing for new apps or different interfaces
>> 4. expanding the number of apps we have w/o having them grouped under a
>> single project (like community was).
>>
>> Non-Goals of this setup:
>>  - no interest in preserving the old admin.fp.o/community urls
>>  - no interest in pinning anything/everything behind admin.fp.o
>>
>>
>> Suggestions:
>>
>> packages.fedoraproject.org
>>
>> some concerns about this are it is a bit confusing with
>> pkgs.fedoraproject.org.
>>
>> A couple of ideas there are:
>>  1. make the new packages app be the frontpage for pkgs.fp.o  - since
>>  gitweb is.... not performant there.
>>
> 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.
>
>>  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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>>
>> These are just some suggestions we discussed in the meeting.
>>
>> Please submit more ideas.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -Toshio
>


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