FTR, I have just re-discovered https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-19185. This shows that reference.apache.org used to work, and the redirect was set up by Infra.
As such, breakages should be handled by Infra. S. On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 23:14, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
