Unlikely, as Infra does not have editing access to Whimsy pages.

Andrew

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 9:51 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>


-- 
Andrew Wetmore
Technical Writer-Editor
Infra
*Apache Software Foundation*
andr...@apache.org

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