Sysadmin Load Reduction: Legacy Compatibility Redirects

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 2:35 AM Zoltan Padrah <zoltan.padrah at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. nov. 9., Szo, 2:02):
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>> Hi all,
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>> 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.
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>> For the most part these refer to dead projects, and have been legacy
>> compatibility redirects for many years (5+) now.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Below are a list of all the redirect candidates:
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>> windows.kde.org
>> mac.kde.org
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> ...
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>> Any comments?
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks,
>> Ben
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> Hi,
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> sorry for posting in this old thread, but I have just noticed that
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> https://kde.org/download/
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> 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.

Thanks for raising this Zoltan, i've now updated the page accordingly.

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> Best regards,
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>  Zoltan
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Cheers,
Ben