Release Notes bookmarks

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Tue May 25 11:33:44 UTC 2010


On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:49:32PM -0400, David Nalley wrote:
> This evening on IRC I noted that the bookmark for the release notes
> now resulted in a 404 with the new site.
> Fortunately the error page is a welcome page designed to handle people
> looking for 'old' links to documentation.
> 
> Sadly, the old release notes link is non-version specific, while the
> new URL to release notes is version specific. I filed a bug[1] and
> Christopher Aillon replied and indicated that essentially at least
> until F14, this is not something we can fix in the bookmarks package.
> 
> He additionally created a trac ticket[2] and added some significant
> commentary there that I think is useful for reading. I don't know how
> we want to proceed or if we think that the 404 page is adequate, but
> thought I'd bring it to the list for discussion, commentary, decision
> making.
> 
> 
> David
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595545
> [2] https://fedorahosted.org/docs/ticket/1

I had suggested a stopgap measure earlier, of putting a prominent link
to the current Release Notes 'above the fold' in the Welcome page.
Should be relatively easy to make PO for that too, if the link text is
something that's already translated, like the document title.

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