by removing group/course/whatever, your polluting the root namespace. -1<div><br></div><div>Some thought should go into this, at github the root namespace is reserved for the individual and every piece of content is tied back to a user</div>
<div><br></div><div>IE <a href="http://github.com/johndbritton">http://github.com/johndbritton</a> [/X]</div><div><br></div><div>I'd like the same format adopted at P2PU, or something that makes sense. Groups could be the root namespace, but that doesn't seem right to me since everything can't be tied back to a group.<br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Joe Corneli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holtzermann17@gmail.com" target="_blank">holtzermann17@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
mind the gap between<br>
the group of one lonely guy<br>
and his user page<br>
<br>
<br>
At Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:13:18 -0400,<br>
<div><div></div><div>"zuzel.vp" <<a href="mailto:zuzel.vp@gmail.com" target="_blank">zuzel.vp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> "courses/groups" in the url are used to decide who serves those pages.<br>
> They need to be there for example to differentiate between user<br>
> profiles and study groups/courses pages (e.g., math school, math<br>
> course, math username).<br>
><br>
> I will add it to lighthouse.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Zuzel<br>
> P.S. nice post <a href="http://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/" target="_blank">http://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/</a><br>
><br>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Joe Corneli <<a href="mailto:holtzermann17@gmail.com" target="_blank">holtzermann17@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > "group" is generic<br>
> > it adds no information --<br>
> > unnecessary<br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Jessy Kate <<a href="mailto:jessy.cowansharp@gmail.com" target="_blank">jessy.cowansharp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> We can use URL shorteners for that... :)<br>
> >><br>
> >> -- Sent from my phone<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Mar 30, 2011 4:42 AM, "Joe Corneli" <<a href="mailto:holtzermann17@gmail.com" target="_blank">holtzermann17@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >>> 5 chars of filler?<br>
> >>> Not good for tweeting about.<br>
> >>> Zap the field instead<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Philipp Schmidt <<a href="mailto:phi.schmidt@gmail.com" target="_blank">phi.schmidt@gmail.com</a>><br>
> >>> wrote:<br>
> >>>> Could we remove "course" from the URL and use "group" instead. It is<br>
> >>>> more ambiguous and let's us go into different directions in the<br>
> >>>> future. Course has a very specific meaning.<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> P<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> On 29 March 2011 12:17, John Britton <<a href="mailto:public@johndbritton.com" target="_blank">public@johndbritton.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >>>>> I agree with stian on this one, urls should be based on an ID with the<br>
> >>>>> course name stringified after<br>
> >>>>> <a href="http://example.com/course/1234/%7BWILDCARD" target="_blank">http://example.com/course/1234/{WILDCARD</a> FOR SEO}<br>
> >>>>> If the course name changes, the wildcard will change but all links (old<br>
> >>>>> and<br>
> >>>>> new) will always work thanks to the ID. Scribd and a bunch of other<br>
> >>>>> sites do<br>
> >>>>> it this way.<br>
> >>>>> --<br>
> >>>>> contact info:<br>
> >>>>> <a href="http://www.johndbritton.com" target="_blank">http://www.johndbritton.com</a><br>
> >>>>> @johndbritton - <a href="http://twitter.com/johndbritton" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/johndbritton</a><br>
> >>>>><br>
> >>>>><br>
> >>>>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:51 AM, zuzel.vp <<a href="mailto:zuzel.vp@gmail.com" target="_blank">zuzel.vp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >>>>>><br>
> >>>>>> Right now after the course is created the url does not change. --<br>
> >>>>>> Added a ticket for this:<br>
> >>>>>><br>
> >>>>>><br>
> >>>>>> <a href="http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002-lernanta/tickets/42-rewrite-url-for-courses-whose-name-has-changed" target="_blank">http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002-lernanta/tickets/42-rewrite-url-for-courses-whose-name-has-changed</a><br>
> >>>>>><br>
> >>>>>> --<br>
> >>>>>> Thanks,<br>
> >>>>>> Zuzel<br>
> >>>>>><br>
> >>>>>> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Stian Håklev <<a href="mailto:shaklev@gmail.com" target="_blank">shaklev@gmail.com</a>><br>
> >>>>>> wrote:<br>
> >>>>>> > I think the new way (committed to source, but not to the running<br>
> >>>>>> > version<br>
> >>>>>> > yet) is a URL with a unique ID and a long name, lke<br>
> >>>>>> > <a href="http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/34034/mathematics-on-computers" target="_blank">new.p2pu.org/en-US/34034/mathematics-on-computers</a>. That way we can<br>
> >>>>>> > change<br>
> >>>>>> > the name easily, without breaking URLs, and we won't have a problem<br>
> >>>>>> > with<br>
> >>>>>> > name collisions when we run courses again and again, etc.<br>
> >>>>>> > Stian<br>
> >>>>>> ><br>
> >>>>>> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 13:00, Joe Corneli <<a href="mailto:holtzermann17@gmail.com" target="_blank">holtzermann17@gmail.com</a>><br>
> >>>>>> > wrote:<br>
> >>>>>> >><br>
> >>>>>> >> <a href="http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/joes-life/" target="_blank">http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/joes-life/</a><br>
> >>>>>> >><br>
> >>>>>> >> should presumably be<br>
> >>>>>> >><br>
> >>>>>> >> <a href="http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/mathematics-on-computers/" target="_blank">http://new.p2pu.org/en-US/courses/mathematics-on-computers/</a><br>
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