[pydotorg-www] PythonLabs website

[Noah Kantrowitz]

On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> On Oct 04, 2011, at 07:06 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> Continuing my nightly "whats the deal with …" spam, does anyone know what the
>>> story with pythonlabs.com is? "pythonlabs.com" is NXDOMAIN, and
>>> www.pythonlabs.com is pointed to GAE, but is serving the same content as
>>> python.org/pythonlabs.  Additionally there is still a vhost for
>>> pythonlabs.com and www.pythonlabs.com on dins dale. Does anyone know who
>>> controls the domain or should I just not worry about this?
>> 
>> Guido will answer definitively (it's his domain), but please do keep this.
> 
> Yeah, it's mine. I don't have plans to do anything with it except as a
> test site for Google App Engine (mostly to test dealings with custom
> domains). I do plan to keep the "Yes Barry there is a Pythonlabs"
> content up at the main page.
> 
>> It's a cute place to forward folks to when they ask about it.
> 
> Agreed. :-)
> 
>> As far as where the domain should point (i.e. the content being the same),
>> again, that should be Guido's decision, but I don't see any reason to keep the
>> GAE up just for that.  The content could be served from dinsdale just fine.
> 
> I don't plan to point the domain back to anywhere on python.org. You
> might still want to keep python.org/pythonlabs around (and a link to
> it from elsewhere on the site, e.g. in a wiki, so search engines can
> find it) but I don't expect you'll ever need the ghost.

Would you prefer if I made python.org/pythonlabs into a redirect just to avoid having duplicate or out-of-sync content?

--Noah
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