Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#247 closed task (fixed)

Chicken domains revamp

Reported by: Mario Domenech Goulart Owned by: Mario Domenech Goulart
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: infrastructure Version: 4.5.0
Keywords: domain names Cc:
Estimated difficulty:

Description

Felix and chicken hackers

We've been discussing on IRC about restructuring the infrastructure so we can have a better organization for the project. One of the topics is the domain names related to chicken.

Currently we have too many domain names related to chicken: call-with-current-continuation.org, callcc.org, chicken.wiki.br, 3e8.org/chickadee, irp.oist.jp (trac) and some domains owned by elf which are not currently in use (chicken-scheme.{com,org} IIRC). I hopefully could remove all the traces of galinha.ucpel.tche.br from our wiki.

It's consensus that we need something simpler and clearer.

An initial proposal would be having a single domain name and subdomains to hold things like wiki, trac, chickadee and such things. We thought about asking Toby to give us the callcc.org domain, so we'd have:

  • [www.]callcc.org: the main page for Chicken. Would be a splash page about the project, containing quick info about the project, like a a brief description, links to the wiki, bug tracking, chickadee, mailing lists and chicken tarballs and sources. www.call-with-current-continuation.org and chicken-scheme.{org,com} would redirect to it.
  • wiki.callcc.org: would point to the wiki machine. chicken.wiki.br would point to wiki.callcc.org. Maybe chicken.wiki.br can be deprecated in the future.
  • bugs.callcc.org: our bug tracking system. Would point to Ivan's machine.
  • docsearch.callcc.org (or chickadee.callcc.org): would point to Jim's machine.

Open questions:

  • Does this basic proposal sound ok?
  • Should (can) we use callcc.org? It sounds good because it's a short form for call-with-current-continuation.org. Besides that, it's owned by Toby, which uses it for his doc search tool (which is outdated). Chickadee does what the current callcc.org search tool does. Another domain suggestion or B plan (in case we decide for callcc.org but Toby has other plans for it)? call.cc has been suggested too, but we'd have to buy it.

Change History (9)

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by Jim Ursetto

call-cc.org was the other domain suggestion. We would have to buy this one. Although if we took over Toby's domain we probably have to buy that anyway.

All machines hanging off callcc.org should use relative URLs or take the Host: header into account -- in other words, act like virtual hosts.

We're not sure how this will work with SSL, although currently, everyone is using self-signed certs.

It is possible we could get a dedicated server to run one or more of these domains/pages. A VPS is not that expensive. But, if domains are set up in the manner suggested, that should be transparent to users.

It's also possible to use subdirectories instead of domains to distinguish among machines (callcc.org/chickadee, callcc.org/wiki). It requires proxying though and setup on the root webserver. Ultimately subdomains are easier and probably better.

comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by Jim Ursetto

Oh. Domains are like $8/yr (call-cc.org is available from name.com for $7.49/yr) so I would suggest picking one we really like rather than settling.

comment:3 in reply to:  1 Changed 14 years ago by Mario Domenech Goulart

Replying to zbigniew:

It is possible we could get a dedicated server to run one or more of these domains/pages. A VPS is not that expensive. But, if domains are set up in the manner suggested, that should be transparent to users.

Just to make clear: we do have a quite decent machine waiting for infrastructure software to be deployed. This machine will replace the current galinha. It's dedicated to chicken and available for whatever infrastructure software you need for chicken.

comment:4 Changed 14 years ago by Jim Ursetto

I had no idea! That is great.

comment:5 Changed 14 years ago by felix winkelmann

Mario, this sounds good. Don't forget git.callcc.org.

comment:6 Changed 14 years ago by Mario Domenech Goulart

I've registered call-cc.org. So far we have call-cc.org and wiki.call-cc.org pointing to the same place (the new wiki machine).

comment:7 Changed 14 years ago by felix winkelmann

Milestone: 4.6.0

comment:8 Changed 14 years ago by felix winkelmann

Owner: set to Mario Domenech Goulart
Status: newassigned

This can be closed now, I think.

comment:9 Changed 14 years ago by Mario Domenech Goulart

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

I'm closing this ticket, since we've migrated services to call-cc.org.

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