On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > James Cassell wrote: > > When I asked, the answer was that it costs money to do custom redirects, > > and the old site is going away "soon" so it would be overcome by events > > sooner or later. > > This just shows how bad an idea it is to rely on third-party-hosted > services. If this were self-hosted Free Software on Fedora Infrastructure > (e.g., a self-hosted version of Discourse), changing the error page would be > a relatively small patch and cost absolutely nothing. >
To be fair, the error page does (now) suggest the old site, but it's not a redirect. Most users may be able to figure it out; I'm not convinced search engines will. > So why does Fedora let commercial third parties host critical project > infrastructure on the fedoraproject.org domain? > The argument I've seen is limited community resources to do the work. (For this reason, there's push to only self-host core competencies, and even whispers of stopping Pagure development.) V/r, James Cassell _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
