On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Alan Burlison wrote:
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Why not? Since you already have a redirection engine in place,
redirecting
as many URL's as possible will greatly increase the site usability; reduce
the
damage to existing documents, products, and search engines; and increase
the
user satisfaction. Breaking them just increases the number of complaints
your team and your team's management will inevitably get about the
migration.
Because all the content on hub is user-editable and pages may move, be
renamed or deleted, or pages may be joined or split. If we tried to provide
redirects for all the pages on the existing site, the redirects would become
more and more broken over time. Redirecting the top level pages will still
allow people to find the information they are looking for, without breaking
as the content in XWiki evolves.
I'm sorry, Alan, but I don't follow this logic. On the current site we could
split content, hide pages or move things around. Then it's our fault for
breaking
our link. Wholesale link breakage is not a good idea. I know I've personally
put
links to the opensolaris website in customer presentations and on my blog.
Others,
I believe, have included some of those links in whitepapers and book chapters.
Just to be specific, individual pages *will* be redirected, but the redirect
will be to the top level of the relevant collective, so for example
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/web/restructuring/site_features/
would end up as a redirect to
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+web/
then forcing the user to hunt around and find the content? Most likely they
will give up and go away. I agree with AlanC, we need to reach out to the
community and users.
Valerie
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Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva/ @bubbva
Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
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