Re: Are we relevant under terms of "free bioinformatics software"
Le Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:53:47PM +0100, Eric MAEKER a écrit :
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> Le 15 mars 2012 à 20:26, Yaroslav Halchenko a écrit :
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> > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/
> > http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/
> > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed
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> Yes there are too many websites. I'm lost between all these.
> Do we really have to keep them all ?
> Can't we make a unique one easily editable (like wiki) ? with redirects like:
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> http://med.debian.org/ -> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed
> http://med.debian.org/alioth -> http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/
> http://med.debian.org/dev -> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/
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> And ensure that the http://med.debian.org/ is the most visible one on search engines (the entry point) ?
Hello everybody,
indeed, our URL surface is too fragmented, and that may explain as well
why none of our many addresses have a good page rank.
I think that we need to focus on one URL, and think well about it for a
durability of, say ten years.
There are many possible choices. Note that different debian.org domain often
mean a differently hosted machine, and this is a big work overhead. This said,
a URL rewriting within the Debian website might also be possible.
In any case, I think that it would be a good time for our pages to leave
the /devel directory, as our pages are not only to give instructions
to developers, and as it makes the URL more difficult to remember.
Here are possible replacements for http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ that
I would think of:
http://www.debian.org/blends/debian-med/
http://www.debian.org/debian-med/
http://blends.debian.org/debian-med/
http://blends.debian.org/med/
http://debian-med.debian.org/
http://med.debian.org/
http://ti.ny/md (just joking; these URL obsfucations are an insult to the WWW)
http://med.deb/ (alternatively, we could lobby the IETF to get a TLD for Debian).
My gut feeling is that we will have a better chance to change our URL if what
we ask can be used by other blends as well.
For the wiki and Alioth front pages, I think that they are very
developer-oriented, and it is good, because it means that they are not
redundant with the Debian website. I would not try to integrate in a single
URL scheme, but rather to accentuate their specialisation.
The tasks pages on Alioth, on the other hand, have a broad audience. But since
they are leaf pages, I think that it is fine to link from www.debian.org to
them.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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