On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the comments on the Foundation blog is: > > "Unless I'm mistaken, nothing has happened in the last 6 months: > http://hg.services.openoffice.org/DEV300"; > > It is perfectly understandable why someone would make this mistake. > > Can we please do something about the old Mercury servers. >
I think we should be redirecting common legacy URLs to their new counterpoints rather than simply closing or deleting things. Otherwise someone, like the commenter, will not just think the code has not been touched in 6 months. They will think that the code is unavailable entirely. The issue is external links into the project, including links from the Google search index. You deal with that with HTTP redirection. -Rob > Ross > > -- > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > Programme Leader (Open Development) > OpenDirective http://opendirective.com >
