[geos-devel] RFC 10 (Move to GitHub) Next Steps

Regina Obe lr at pcorp.us
Tue Nov 9 13:34:01 PST 2021


#2) The  osgeo website (that is probably why google is ranking
geos.osgeo.org so highly)

https://www.osgeo.org/projects/geos/

Need to change visit website link to libgeos.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Regina Obe [mailto:lr at pcorp.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 4:31 PM
> To: 'GEOS Development List' <geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: RE: [geos-devel] RFC 10 (Move to GitHub) Next Steps
> 
> > Wherewith a set of steps to take on the way to completing RFC10
> >
> > - Ensure all current committers are part of a new committer group on
> > github
> > - Turn off replication osgeo->github. Document new canonical location
> > in all places one can find (trac, website, etc)
> > - Complete migration of all current and useful content from the wiki
> > into the web site.
> > - Delete wiki content and replace front page with reference to new web
> > site location (libgeos.org)
> > - Set trac to read-only
> > - Scrape trac contents for posterity
> >
> > Anything I am missing here?
> [Regina Obe]
> I think the only thing missing on your list is:
> 
> 302 Redirect geos.osgeo.org -> libgeos.org It's the first entry that comes
up for
> me in websearch (google) when I type  "geos" so I think it's important to
> redirect (weird that google doesn't think trac is important) On bing -
it's
> trac.osgeo.org/geos (so guess we are set there) On duckduckgo -- (first
GEOS
> related link is trac.osgeo.org/geos)
> 
> 
> I think the only thing that were on geos.osgeo.org was:
> 1)  a the redirect to trac (no longer needed)
> 2) doxygen (now on libgeos.org)
> 3) 7 day daily snapshots -- which we can probably do without
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Regina
> 




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