On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:57:38 +0000, robert burrell donkin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6 Jan 2005, at 09:09, Danny Angus wrote:
> 
> > Robert,
> >
> >> and is any planning needed so that no toes are stepped on?
> >
> > An advance heads-up would warn other projects which might link to those
> > pages. Though as a redirect wouldn't break the links I guess its not
> > that
> > important, James has been bitten by Jakarta changes before, though I
> > hasten
> > to add it is James' own fault for not moving quick enough, and anyway I
> > don't think this would affect James.
> 
> it's hard to know which projects links to jakarta and where would be
> the right place to post any advance warning. so, though i definitely
> take your point, i'm not sure that there's much that can be done.

I wonder if there's a link checker doodad that we could run on *.a.o,
perhaps as a cron job, and have it send out Gump-like nag messages
when something breaks?

--
Martin Cooper


> i do try to ensure that any changes i make do not break links. the
> redirects should ensure that this doesn't happen.
> 
> what i will try to do is to collect and collate the changes (once
> there's a reasonable number) and post an email to community detailing
> the new pages and together with the redirected pages from jakarta. this
> should allow projects which may be linking to redirects to update their
> links.
> 
> - robert
> 
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