Hi, On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 04:21:38PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > Sylvain and all,
Nope, "Savannah Hackers," > The freefont project (among others) started life as non-gnu for whatever > reason, and files were put in its > http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freefont/ download area. > > Then we switched it to be GNU as it should have been, and it uses the > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/ download area as it should. > > The problem is the savannah download area still exists in its stale > state. All the files are on ftp.gnu.org. Can we archive/delete those > files and redirect it to ftp.gnu.org? I have no idea where to start, > sorry. (And didn't see anything in the wiki.) > > I believe many other nonGNU-became-GNU projects could benefit from the > same. We can implement a specific HTTP redirection in that folder. Ok, I even did so. I suggest the redirection be temporary (like 6 months) to avoid them from piling up. Btw I remember Elfyn once implemented this site-wide and people complained, because some GNU maintainers use both download areas differently (including myself these days :)). -- Sylvain
