release-notes-ISO word not needed in URL -- use short, clean URLs

[Dimitris Glezos]

O/H Paul W. Frields έγραψε:
> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 00:14 +0100, Dimitris Glezos wrote:
>> Just noticed that the english release notes page on the static website 
>> has the following URL:
>>
>>    http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/release-notes-ISO/
>>
>> The last "directory" contains a word already in the URL (release-notes) 
>> and another word (ISO) that gives no useful information to the user. A 
>> better URL would be:
 >>
> +1.  This is firmly in the province of the FDP (publishing of relnotes
> on the Web).  There are a number of folks who publish, and so sometimes
> things skew a little.  I'm not sure what the best practice is for moving
> these -- we certainly don't want to 404 anyone who hits the old link.  A
> redirect page would do the trick, but it would take someone who knows
> the One True Way to do that on the existing site.

Prevention is the best way to deal with these issues.

A 301 redirect is the next best way. :)



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