Done.
----- Original Message ----- > From: Kay Schenk <[email protected]> > To: ooo-dev <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Monday, January 2, 2012 6:06 PM > Subject: need a redirect for "contributing", was...Fwd: Discovered a problem > with link on website > > 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* >
