On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 13:02, Andrew Wetmore <andr...@apache.org> wrote: > > Unlikely, as Infra does not have editing access to Whimsy pages.
Sorry, I was not clear. Whimsy originally used https://reference.apache.org/. That stopped working when Infra moved off that host. Eventually Infra added redirects (see INFRA-19185), but in the meantime Whimsy was updated to use the new page, i.e. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/Reference Recently that also stopped working, presumably because of further changes to the INFRA wiki. Whimsy should not have to keep changing its links. > 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
