On 2 November 2019 09:12:21 CET, "Miro Hrončok" <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 01. 11. 19 22:58, Tim Jackson wrote: >> I realise this is not exactly news, but when replacing Ask Fedora, >was there a >> reason to break all the links on the entire web to existing >solutions, rather >> than just putting the new system on a different domain? Or, failing >that, at >> least adding (conditional) redirects and/or links to the "old" site? >> >> It seems like finally as Fedora was building up a body of useful >"ask"-type >> content and get traction on search engines (= searching for things >not only >> leading to results about Ubuntu), we wiped the slate clean. >> >> As it is now, whenever I (as a Fedora user) search for something, I >still >> frequently end up at a dead end on a 404 page on >ask.fedoraproject.org. There >> isn't even a *link* to the corresponding page on >askbot.fedoraproject.org - >> surely that, at least, is something we could do? (yes, I realise one >just has to >> add "bot" to the hostname, but that's not the point - not everyone >will either >> realise that, or bother, and it's trivial to do when generating the >error page) > >This is very much needed but apparently, the effort got stalled: > >https://pagure.io/fedora-websites/issue/953 >https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/updating-the-404-template-to-mention-the-move-to-discourse/407/6 Not having this planned for and sorted before the change is sloppy. Sadly this kind of attitude towards breakage in a production environment seems makes fedora look bad and like we as a community can't even keep simple services working. It seems the whole move to discourse thing was done without proper planning. Do we not follow any type of change procedures? Br M _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
