Re: [chairs] This Old House (OASIS) - Further Response to Peter Brown

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote on 04/28/2010 07:15:15 PM:
> 
> On 4/28/2010 5:11 PM, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> > Oh, I think this is more like saying don't trust a house builder whose
> > toolbox is not neatly organized.  Maybe, maybe not.  I think it is
> > something that would need to be demonstrated, not assumed.
> >
> > 
> OK, how many examples would count for a demonstration?
>

Let's see if we can start with one good one.
 
> Give me a reasonable number and I will post them to this list, naming 
> names as it were.
> 
> Here's one to get us started (although this is true across all TCs that 
> I am aware of):
> 
> Follow this link to get ODF email archives:
> 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/messages.php
> 
> Now, follow this link to get ODF email archives:
> 
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/
> 
> Do you notice anything different about those two pages?
> 
> (Hint: You can search using MarkMail with the second one.)
> 

From the public-facing perspective, the later URL is what is pointed to 
from the TC's public-facing home page, so that is what I expect the public 
would use.  The former URL is linked to from the password-protected Kavi 
page, so the public would not stumble on that page.  The exception would 
be a TC member posted an email with a hyperlink to a URL from the private 
repository.  Is that what you are seeing?   I know we had a problem 
similar to that with doc repository links a while back. 

> Err, would having a uniform way to access email archives, hopefully 
> MarkMail, be too much trouble?
> 

I assume that, for IPR documentation reasons at least, OASIS will always 
need to store their own copy of the emails.  But I wonder if a URL rewrite 
rule in Apache could simply redirect the "private" URLs to the public 
copy?  That would handle historic uses of the private URLs as well as 
future ones.

-Rob