On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kay, > > Good catch here. There are images with /contributing/_media/*.png urls to > move out of that tree now. Done in r1226617. > OK--I'll take a look at this today and see what needs to be done. And, Joe, thanks for the redirect! > Regards, > Dave > > > On Jan 2, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > 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* > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." -- *Colonial American proverb*
