Hi-- I'm not sure who to direct this to -- we need a redirect from the old "contributing"/xxxx (as soon as is convenient) pages to
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/get-involved.html ...and...what to do about a search for "contribute" which lands folks in the wrong areas... -- *or* should we do a page redirect instead? see the rest of this post for the problem.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Theodora Kimmel <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:49 PM Subject: Discovered a problem with link on website To: [email protected] Hello there, I was reading about how to offer support, and on this page: http://www.openoffice.org/contributing/ when I went to read about ³Guidelines for Participate in OpenOffice.org², I was lead to a ³domain not found page,² provided to me through Optimum Online, my cable internet provider. The only way I was able to get to the page I was looking for, moreover, then required me to do a bit work and follow a number of steps. I did eventually get to the desired guidelines page, but obviously not through the link you provided. Here is how I did it: On this ³domain not found page², I clicked this link: www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/index.html, entitled ³The Free and Open Productivity Suite.² It was about 3-4 titles down, if you count the yellow highlighted ad at the top. Once I clicked this link, I was brought to this site, http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/index.html which was back on OpenOffice.org, but not where I needed to go. I then went to the top right-hand corner of the light-blue/gray tool bar, just under the icon for OpenOffice.org, and clicked ³dev_docs.² I did this because I noticed when I was on the ³domain not found page², it was focused on ³dev_docs² and wanted to know if maybe because my search had come up empty, that I needed to change these words provided in this format of dev_docs. Thus, when I made it back to the OpenOffice website, I decided to click on that section, as I noticed I had somehow gotten to a page connected to ³dev_docs,² based on the flow-chart of arrows in the previously mentioned tool-bar. I then clicked on dev_docs, and was brought to this page: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/ and noticing there was, among the right-hand side list of titles plus icons, one called ³guidelines,² I clicked that, and assumed I had made it to the page I had intended to get to all along. This was the page I ended up at: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/guidelines.html I hope this is the correct page. It seems so. All of this said, please check the link on your website for ³Guidelines for Participate in OpenOffice.org² as it not linking people to dev_docs within the OpenOffice website. Thank-you, Theodora -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." -- *Colonial American proverb*
