On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 11:31 PM Volker Krause <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Saturday, 9 November 2019 01:02:01 CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > One of the more smaller things that Sysadmin currently looks after is > > a large number of legacy compatibility redirects, which keep a variety > > of subdomains under KDE.org functional. > > > > For the most part these refer to dead projects, and have been legacy > > compatibility redirects for many years (5+) now. > > > > Given that sites should have now had a chance to update themselves, > > i'd like to go ahead and remove a number of these redirects. > > > > These redirects, whilst appearing relatively minor in nature, do > > require a certain degree of custom logic on the server side to handle > > them and therefore collectively create maintenance burden that in many > > cases probably outweighs the value they provide. > > > > We therefore should only retain them if there are places we are still > > unable to update which someone may need to follow (and not simply > > because 'somewhere might still link there') given that most people > > find things through their preferred search engine now. > > > > Below are a list of all the redirect candidates: > > I checked the PIM related ones with lxr and local grepping: > > > kmail.kde.org > > unused > > > kmobiletools.kde.org > > product long dead, redirects to external parking site? > > > korganizer.kde.org > > redirects to dead link, lxr still finds one reference > > > korganizer.org > > unused, redirects to dead link > > > pim.kde.org > > lxr finds a few alive references that we probably should adjust before > disabling this > > > kdepim.org > > kdepim.com > > both unused apparently > > > akregator.kde.org > > lxr still finds one reference for this, but it seems to redirect to an empty > wiki page > > > Any comments? > > > > I'd also like to be able to recommend to the KDE e.V. Board that we > > permit kdepim.org, kdepim.com and korganizer.org to expire at the end > > of their current registration period. > > No objections to that.
Thanks for confirming all of the above Volker. If we could get steps underway to eliminate the remaining references to pim.kde.org that would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Volker Cheers, Ben
