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

From
"Selena Deckelmann"
Date:
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

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Re: proposal to add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org

From
"Dave Page"
Date:
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.


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Re: proposal to add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org

From
"Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
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

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
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

From
"Selena Deckelmann"
Date:
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


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Selena Deckelmann
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Re: proposal to add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org

From
Andrew Sullivan
Date:
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

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Re: proposal to add people.postgresql.org as a CNAME for planet.postgresql.org

From
"Dave Page"
Date:
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.

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Dave Page
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