I discovered that as we updated the redirections from
http://taverna.sourceforge.net/ to our new website at
http://www.taverna.org.uk/  forgot about a tiny SourceForge feature
where it will generate a Sourceforge Project page if there is no
index.html  (I did all the redirection in .htaccess)

I've now rectified that so that also the front page
http://taverna.sourceforge.net/ redirects properly. Other URLs such as
http://taverna.sourceforge.net/download and
http://taverna.sourceforge.net/docs should also redirect to the
appropriate page on the new site. Please let us know if there are any
old linked/bookmarked URLs that no longer work/redirect.

I changed the default download among the old files at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/taverna/files/ in case someone still
goes down that route by searching for Taverna from the SourceForge
front page.


(And if you don't remember why we moved downloads away from
SourceForge it had to do with the intrusive forms that asked users to
fill in marketing information - this turned out to be part of injected
ads from third-parties and would actually trick users into downloading
something else than Taverna).


It was not possible to remove the 'Download now' button without also
removing all the old versions, so instead I made a readme file the
default download. The readme is as follows:


> Official download site for Taverna workbench is no longer SourceForge, but:
>
>  http://www.taverna.org.uk/download/
>
> Also see new official download mirrors:
>
>  https://launchpad.net/taverna/t1
>  https://launchpad.net/taverna/t2
>  http://code.google.com/p/taverna/downloads/list
>
>
> Older versions of Taverna are still available here for archival reasons.

Of course clicking for this readme file will still hit those intrusive
ads, but this should only affect users who probably are already
familiar with SourceForge.


-- 
Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester

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