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[Mateusz Loskot]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Jason Birch <Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca> wrote:
>> I don't think that it was specifically dropped, it just wasn't made a
>> requirement for new projects coming into OSGeo.
>>
>> There are project pages on the OSGeo site (like
>> http://www.osgeo.org/grass - just product info "fliers") but from there
>> the project URL can be anything from external host-based (like
>> http://grass.osgeo.org/ - which is non-canonical, this seems to be the
>> same as grass.itc.it)
> 
> Jason,
> 
> grass.itc.it and others are the mirror sites of http://grass.osgeo.org/ (which
> is the master site).
> 
> @All:
> I would appreciate to see all projects using the "project.osgeo.org"
> scheme, even only with a redirection. Just to apply a generic scheme
> and provide transparency to our users...


+1

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