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

On 01/05/13 18:27, Dave Raggett wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that the phase 1 editor's drafts all now have
> 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 domain or for a corresponding
> submdomain on 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.

Thank you very much for this Dave! I just updated the runtime editor
draft to no longer point to a sysapps.org URL.

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Mounir

Received on Thursday, 9 May 2013 14:47:50 UTC