On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: >> The currently rudderless ships are: >> >> COLLECTIVE_TYPE COLLECTIVE >> Community Group cab
Actually cab has been superseded by the ogb long ago in 2006/07. So it is not a rudderless ship, but rather a sunken and reborn one. The alias was still there for legacy compatibility purposes. But when we consider, that the new website basically BREAKS ALL LINKS to most of the previous content plus introduces silly (rather than mnemonic and hierarchical) url?s, a thing like systematic organizational backwards compatibility appears to be a mere relict belonging to the remote past now :( In case this needs further explanation, here is a single example: Unfortunately the new website breaks many (most) old links. Was this necessary??? Google still shows the old links: http://www.google.com/search?q=shadow+compilation%C2%A8opensolaris&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Old links as reported by google (not its cache!) : http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/gcc/shadow/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/pages/2006033001/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/gcc/flagday/ If I call each of them now, what I get is just this crappy redirection, without even the tiniest warning: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/ http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/ http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/ Is it a good idea to renovate the a website in such a way, that nothing gets found anymore (even w/o a notice one gets redirected to the main page, huh ... ) ?? After searching from there for ?shadow compilation? I get the insane new links: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+tools/shadow http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+tools/flagday How was it possible that nobody prevented this nightmare from happening? Why did Sun pay (!!!) somebody to implement this? Does such a measure increase transparency? Or is somebody trying to implement it more like a corporate website where transparency is not desired? It is a mad sad world. p.s. For the SPARC-gfx drivers SUNW did not even have 50$ ... %martin
