On 14 October 2011 16:49, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Ross Gardler > <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: >> One of the comments on the Foundation blog is: >> >> "Unless I'm mistaken, nothing has happened in the last 6 months: >> http://hg.services.openoffice.org/DEV300"; >> >> It is perfectly understandable why someone would make this mistake. >> >> Can we please do something about the old Mercury servers. >> > > I think we should be redirecting common legacy URLs to their new > counterpoints rather than simply closing or deleting things. > Otherwise someone, like the commenter, will not just think the code > has not been touched in 6 months. They will think that the code is > unavailable entirely. The issue is external links into the project, > including links from the Google search index. You deal with that with > HTTP redirection.
Agreed - so can we make it happen? Ross
