[Compcomm] My ideas (for the record)

[Erkin Bahceci]

This is a reply to both "sides".

Apparently there is an agreement about using subdomains, which I think
is a good idea too. But the problem boils down to the same thing
again: names. It looks like both sides are really stubborn and neither
side can let go of their *beloved* domain names, compiz.org and
opencompositing.org, and neither side will be able to persuade the
other one on using "theirs".

Honestly I'm absolutely uninterested in this discussion as I don't
care which domain you use, as long as there is a single forum and a
central place for this stuff with its subdomains. I think you are
discussing stuff that is really unimportant, and discussing it to
death.

So here is a solution:

If both sides really can't "give up" their domain names (which is
apparently the case), why don't you just do multiple DNS aliasing to
make compiz.org and opencompositing.org point to the same site so that
it looks as if it was compiz.org and opencompositing.org,
respectively, (as well as their subdomains), so whenever an
"opencompositing.org admirer" goes to the opencompositing.org address,
he would see the same content as a "compiz.org admirer" sees at
compiz.org. The links can be relative (something could be worked for
links to subdomains too). The actual content
(forum/wiki/bugtracker/etc...) would be the same (or would be
retrieved from the same database).

Then everybody would be free to use their preferred address. If you
want so much, you could even show a different logo and theme for the
two addresses!

Would this work for most of you?

Btw, I'm pretty sure that 99% of the (current+future) users won't give
a cr*p about which domain you use.

Regards....