old pages on fedora.redhat.com (Was: Re: [fab] Legal contact policy and incentives for contributors)

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Patrick W. Barnes schrieb:
> On Thursday 13 July 2006 02:56, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> 
> wrote:
>> Patrick W. Barnes schrieb:
>>> On Thursday 13 July 2006 01:41, Rahul <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>>> There are two reasons we haven't already done this:
>>>>> 1.  We have to use manual redirects.  Because of the way the site is
>>>>> currently set up, we can't use automatic redirects.  This would be an
>>>>> ugly way to greet fedora.redhat.com visitors.
>>>> I dont really consider the current spartan pages a much better user
>>>> experience and we are doing redundant work. We already know that
>>>> fedora.redhat.com is not easily changed either.
>>> The pages on fedora.redhat.com are current, [...]
>> While on this topic -- old pages like
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/about/
>> (new is http://fedora.redhat.com/About/ )
>> are still around on the server. I was told the old pages are not linked
>> to on fedora.redhat.com (good idea ;-) ), but google an other search
>> engines still find them. That confusing. And even worse: Google for
>> example sometimes lists the old pages higher in the results than the new
>> pages. That a PITA and should be fixed by deleting the old stuff.
> Back when we did the fedora.redhat.com revamp, we tried to add manual 
> redirects from older pages to current pages.  If we've missed some (and I'm 
> sure we have), they are worthy of bug reports. 

There's a bug already:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189069

Filed 2006-04-15, not closed, but seems it was fixed (at least the
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/
vs.
http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/
mentioned in the inital report. Didn#t look at the other URLs

I added some of the other pages google found. But that's a hard job --
someone really should use "find" and/or "grep" on the server to locate
all the other old pages and fix them afterwards.

Cu
thl