Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:05:19 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, bmah@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: doc/ tree frozen (was Re: HEADS UP for /usr/src/release/doc & /usr/doc) Message-ID: <20010612000519.E94513E0B@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <20010611175041.A35687@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on "Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:50:43 %2B0400"
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I'm picking a random message out of the thread to reply to, and as much as I hate contributing to a flame-war, this issue has not yet been mentioned. All the bickering about this not being discussed aside, fixing the relnotes isn't going to be the end of the story: the web site is broken. Well, sort of. It builds fine, but not in the right place. The URLs for the doc part of the web site correspond directly to the directories in the repository. E.g., we have URLs like this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/ With this change, the above turned into: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ (The first URL still exists because the contents of the web site is never actually wiped; normally, it's just installed over.) This breaks *a lot* of links. Not only within the web site, but external links as well. This is, quite franky, unacceptable. Using symbolic links or HTTP redirects to remedy this is unsatisfying. We've had this discussion before, and symlinks are *evil* on web sites (just ask wosch), and HTTP redirects simply don't work for mirrors. At this point, I'd just like to hear what kind of solution you have for the above problem. We already changed most of the URLs some months ago; I don't think anybody wants to do it again. Regards, Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org P.S. Some time ago, I heard someone say that any proposed change that creates work for or causes grief for a group of people should be communicated to that group of people *prior* to being enacted. (This isn't an official rule; I saw this on one of the lists.) This cosmetic (yes, I think removing an underscore is more cosmetic than it is technical) change certainly causes work for (e.g., bmah fixing relnotes) and grief for (just look at this thread) some people. It is akin to the /modules -> /boot/kernel switch; it's probably a good thing, but it affects so many people that one shouldn't simply do it on a whim. P.P.S. I apologize in advance if this e-mail offended anybody; that was certainly not my intention. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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