[SAC] Virtual Hosts Policy

[Tyler Mitchell]

I agree and was arguing that point earlier - I'd personally rather  
see fewer drupal instances, that's for sure.

On 23-Jan-07, at 8:16 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>> You will see a bunch of rewrites already, at least for the www  
>> stuff, to help emulate the past vhost-style setup and forward it  
>> to osgeo.org/<project>.  This has worked fine except that now  
>> certain projects (geodata, local chapters) need to manage the  
>> whole content for their site and not just a few pages - so it  
>> seems like there is increasing need to stand up more drupal  
>> instances.
>
> Tyler,
>
> I can understand wanting distinct drupal instances for projects like
> MapGuide, FDO and Mapbender (assuming they don't prefer to stay wiki
> based), but do committees like geodata and local chapters actually
> require distinct drupal instances?  Perhaps an ambitious local chapter
> that wants an extensive amount of material might want it's own
> instance, but for the amounts of material currently living in the
> Wiki this doesn't seem critical.
>
> I guess my point is that I'd prefer avoiding a proliferation of
> Drupal instances if there isn't pressing need.  Amoung other things
> we reduce the benefit of the built in drupal search stuff as we
> split things into many instances.
>
> Best regards,
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