On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:44 AM, brett lentz <wakko666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Including Infrastructure team gurus on this email thread for >> additional expert advice and assistance. :-) Setting reply-to docs@ >> list. >> >> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:55:05AM -0400, Eric Sparks Christensen wrote: >>> On 06/05/2010 03:14 AM, Ruediger Landmann wrote: > I'm not aware of any specific time frame defined by the RFCs or other > standards. Each site has a different policy for redirect maintenance. > There are 3 basic options: > > 1. Watch the access logs for a majority of the access requests to use > the new URL. When the pre-determined threshold is met, remove the > redirect and accept that some users who still haven't updated their > links will receive a 404 (Object Not Found). > > 2. Set a date-based transition period. After the specified date, > either remove the redirect, or apply the logic #1 and bump out the cut > off date accordingly. > > 3. Keep the redirect indefinitely, or until the maintenance costs are > too cumbersome. Many organizations use this one, for better or worse. > Number 3 is usually what I have dealt with and it becomes cumbersome way too soon for a volunteer group. I would go with a #2. Basically go with a D-day rated to a release. Since most of these changes occured at release time, we will do redirects until say F14 is released or F11 goes EOL. -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
