On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 18:11, Andrew Wetmore <andr...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi, Sebb. The target page no longer exists and there is no replacement.
I know, but there *should* be a replacement. URLs should not be broken unnecessarily. The page is a replacement for the website index at https://reference.apache.org/ which now leads nowhere. What are link holders supposed to do about that? It does not make sense that some of the lower-level URLs such as https://reference.apache.org/committer/github redirect OK, but the top-level ones do not. > If there were, I would have provided the redirect as you suggested. Whimsy > can do with the broken link as it sees best, but I thought you might want to > know about it. Thanks, but I still think the onus is on Infra to not break links. > Andrew > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 2:34 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 17:27, Andrew Wetmore <andr...@apache.org> wrote: >> > >> > Hi: >> > >> > On this page [1] there is a link that purports to go to "Infra reference >> > pages". Since that section no longer exists on the Infra wiki, the link is >> > broken. >> >> The link is likely to be used elsewhere than in Whimsy, so it seems to >> me the most helpful solution would be to provide a redirect from the >> old page. >> >> > If you wanted to provide a general link to the services Infra >> > provides, this URL [2] might serve. >> >> Thanks, but why should Whimsy have to fix something it did not break? >> >> > Andrew >> > >> > [1] https://whimsy.apache.org/committers/tools >> > >> > [2] https://infra.apache.org/services.html >> > >> > -- >> > Andrew Wetmore >> > Technical Writer-Editor >> > Infra >> > *Apache Software Foundation* >> > andr...@apache.org
