Re: projects.postgresql.net

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Dave Page wrote:

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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@postgresql.org]
> > Sent: 02 February 2004 15:48
> > To: Tom Lane
> > Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] projects.postgresql.net
> >
> >
> > We can use .org, it just means that its more difficult to
> > automate the process of setting up a new project, since DNS
> > would have to be modified for each new one ...
>
> Not to mention that we may have problems if someone registers a project
> in a generic name that we later want to use for some reason (for
> example, someone starts a search engine project and simply calls it
> 'search').
>
> I would vote to keep it all in it's own domain.
>
> On that note though Marc, any thoughts on automatically adding such
> sites to the indexer?

select 'http://' || project_name || '.postgresql.org' from project;

on the 186_gborg database? :)

then again, how does gborg know there is an 'external web site'?  we'd
want to set that anyway, and then you could pull in all external project
web sites semi-automatically ... ?

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664