Thread: proposal to add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org
proposal to add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org
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"Selena Deckelmann"
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Can we add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org? It's a natural alias that Gevik (and several others including me) have used when they meant to say 'planet'. -selena -- Selena Deckelmann PDXPUG - http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx Me - http://www.chesnok.com/daily
Re: proposal to add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org
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"Dave Page"
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com> wrote: > Can we add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org? > > It's a natural alias that Gevik (and several others including me) have > used when they meant to say 'planet'. Well they never were the same think - people is the individual blogs (which we're not going to provide under postgresql.org), and planet is the aggregator - so I don't think it makes sense to add a cname. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
Re: proposal to add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org
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"Joshua D. Drake"
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Selena Deckelmann wrote: > Can we add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org? > > It's a natural alias that Gevik (and several others including me) have > used when they meant to say 'planet'. Except that "people" was generally a blogging service, which planet is not. Wouldn't that cause confusion? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake
Re: proposal to add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org
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Peter Eisentraut
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Selena Deckelmann wrote: > Can we add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org? > > It's a natural alias that Gevik (and several others including me) have > used when they meant to say 'planet'. Not necessarily the same thing. For example, people.debian.org is completely distinct from planet.debian.org. A "planet" subdomain is pretty well established as a blogging aggregator. Where is the precedent for "people"?
Re: proposal to add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org
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"Selena Deckelmann"
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote: > Selena Deckelmann wrote: >> >> Can we add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org? >> >> It's a natural alias that Gevik (and several others including me) have >> used when they meant to say 'planet'. > > Not necessarily the same thing. For example, people.debian.org is > completely distinct from planet.debian.org. A "planet" subdomain is pretty > well established as a blogging aggregator. Where is the precedent for > "people"? I don't think there's a precedent for it. It's just a thinko people make about the name for blog aggregators. I've heard it said and written before, and Gevik just did it. Dave's right - that alias was already being used by the individual blogs. My mistake - please leave things as they are :) -selena -- Selena Deckelmann PDXPUG - http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx Me - http://www.chesnok.com/daily
Re: proposal to add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org
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Andrew Sullivan
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 08:21:20AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Except that "people" was generally a blogging service, which planet is not. > Wouldn't that cause confusion? And break the DNS entry for people when (if?) it gets restored? A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@commandprompt.com +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/
Re: proposal to add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org
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"Dave Page"
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 08:21:20AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> Except that "people" was generally a blogging service, which planet is not. >> Wouldn't that cause confusion? > > And break the DNS entry for people when (if?) it gets restored? Different domain. We're talking about [people|planet].postgresql.org, not [people|www].planetpostgresql.org. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com