Re: w3.org URIs for editor's drafts on GitHub

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Dave Raggett wrote:

> I am pleased to announce that the phase 1 editor's drafts all now have 
> w3.org (http://w3.org) URIs thanks to some rewrite rules and a .htaccess file that 
> places the drafts under the URI for the SysApps home page:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/runtime/
> http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/manifest/
> http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/app-uri/
> http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/web-alarms/
> http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/contacts-manager-api/
> http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/messaging/
> http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/telephony/
> http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/raw-sockets/
> 
> The rewrite rules direct the W3C server to act as a proxy for GitHub, 
> e.g. for runtime this maps to http://sysapps.github.io/runtime/
> 
> This avoids the need for the sysapps.org (http://sysapps.org) domain or for a corresponding 
> submdomain on w3.org (http://w3.org), both of which would be a hard sell to convince the 
> W3C management.
> 
> The next step is to update each of the drafts to use the above links for 
> the latest version of the editor's draft.
> 
> Note please remember the trailing / for now, although I hope to make 
> that optional with a bit of fiddling with the rewrite rules.

I think this is a good compromise (and should address the issues Chaals raised at the last F2F). Thanks for investigating and setting this up, Dave! 

The *.sysapps.org domain will continue to work for our internal stuff and short cuts. But "officially" we should only use the links above for specs.  

Kind regards,
Marcos 

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Marcos Caceres

Received on Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:32:54 UTC