Announcing people.ubuntuwire.com and qa.ubuntuwire.com

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:34:55AM -0800, Matthew East wrote:
> On 11/11/2007, Brandon Holtsclaw <imbrandon at kubuntu.org> wrote:
> > The UbuntuWire Server Development Team is pleased to announce the resumption of
> > the UbuntuWire Community Network, with the introduction of
> > people.ubuntuwire.com
> > and qa.ubuntuwire.com
> 
> Assuming the community finds these services helpful, would there be
> any obvious reasons not to point people.ubuntu.com and qa.ubuntu.com
> at the server?
> 
> The existing people.u.c could then be moved to people.canonical.com,
> which as per the previous thread on this subject is probably a more
> coherent place for it; as I understand it (please correct me if I'm
> wrong) all Canonical employees, regardless of whether they work on
> Ubuntu or not have a user there.

As a point of accuracy, only technical staff at Canonical have accounts
on people.ubuntu.com; certainly more than just Ubuntu staff have
accounts there, but it's by no means all staff.

In any case, if people.ubuntu.com is moved (I express no opinion on that
here), then the new machine needs to provide redirects for old URLs.
people.ubuntu.com has been around for some time and we've used it as
part of our infrastructure in ways that are not necessarily easy to
change at short notice. In fact, right at the moment I'm in the process
of creating a custom CD image for small-scale use that has a preseed
file pointing to a repository on people.ubuntu.com. We can't break that
sort of thing.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]