Sysadmin Load Reduction: Legacy Compatibility Redirects

[Zoltan Padrah]

Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. nov. 9., Szo,
2:02):

> Hi all,
>
> One of the more smaller things that Sysadmin currently looks after is
> a large number of legacy compatibility redirects, which keep a variety
> of subdomains under KDE.org functional.
>
> For the most part these refer to dead projects, and have been legacy
> compatibility redirects for many years (5+) now.
>
> Given that sites should have now had a chance to update themselves,
> i'd like to go ahead and remove a number of these redirects.
>
> These redirects, whilst appearing relatively minor in nature, do
> require a certain degree of custom logic on the server side to handle
> them and therefore collectively create maintenance burden that in many
> cases probably outweighs the value they provide.
>
> We therefore should only retain them if there are places we are still
> unable to update which someone may need to follow (and not simply
> because 'somewhere might still link there') given that most people
> find things through their preferred search engine now.
>
> Below are a list of all the redirect candidates:
> --
>
> ...

> windows.kde.org
> mac.kde.org

...

>
> --
>
> Any comments?
>
> I'd also like to be able to recommend to the KDE e.V. Board that we
> permit kdepim.org, kdepim.com and korganizer.org to expire at the end
> of their current registration period.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>


Hi,

sorry for posting in this old thread, but I have just noticed that

https://kde.org/download/

still directly links windows.kde.org and mac.kde.org ; neither existing any
more. I do not know who to ping about updating the download web-page so I'm
writing here.


Best regards,

 Zoltan
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