To all the committers and contributors: at the end of 2012 the ASF Infrastructure mechanism is going to shut down the autoexport plugin that transforms Confluence pages into static html pages.
For example this url will no longer work: https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBADMIN/apache-ofbiz-project-overview.html while the url to the source document in Confluence will still work: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Apache+OFBiz+Project+Overview However if we change our site to link pages directly to Confluence we may cause issues to the ASF Confluence server that is not designed to support the potentially high traffic of a web site. In short, we need to fix these links and for each of them we can adopt one of the following strategies: A) remove the link from the website; this is an acceptable solution if the document it refers to is old or not very useful (the document will still leave in Confluence) B) convert the document into a static html page; this should be done for all the important pages like https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBADMIN/mailing-lists.html or https://cwiki.apache.org/OFBADMIN/ofbiz-source-repository-and-access.html C) modify the link to point directly to Confluence: this is acceptable only for less important pages, with low traffic, and the links should not be in a prominent place of the web site; the text around the link should also clearly mention that the link will move the user out of the website to the Wiki (Confluence) Over the last years I did several changes to the website in preparation for this move and we should now be in a rather good position, but still some work is required to fix this last part. Here is a roadmap, and we will need the help from you all (committers and contributors): 1) identify all the links that need to be fixed 2) categorize them according to the the fixing strategy we want to adopt (A, B, C); we can quickly discuss this in this list 3) create new pages for B 4) fix links for C I would suggest to reply to this email mentioning the page (or task) you are going to address: in this way we will be able to split the work and complete it asap (using Jira task or a confluence page will be fine as well). Thank you, Jacopo
