en_US.ISO8859-1 copy of Committer's Guide is outdated

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 14 14:43:37 UTC 2021


On 4/14/2021 9:17 AM, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 09:05:05PM -0600, Rebecca Cran wrote:
>> I noticed that
>>
>> https://docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/index.html
>>
>>
>> still has the Subversion Primer, while the copy at
>>
>> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/committers-guide/
>>
>> has the updated Git version of the docs.
>> Is there some extra work needed for the en_US.ISO8859-1 copy, or was
>> it missed in an update?
>>
>> -- 
>> Rebecca Cran
>>
>>
> 
> Hi Rebecca,
> 
>      Yes, this is an (unintended, but necessary) consequence of the move
>      from a previous URI scheme to the new one, that was implemented
>      along with the AsciiDoctor conversion that was finished some time
>      ago.
> 
>      Eventually, the idea is to set up HTTP 301 redirects, which should
>      not only ensure that old links get redirected properly to the new
>      documentation (so that there are no dead links), but it should also
>      make it so that the various search engines and other web-spiders
>      pick up on the change.
> 
>      The current issue, however, that there's still a few things that
>      needs to be addressed before this can happen, and we also need to
>      have an actual map of how the URIs changed, which needs to be
>      created by someone. It'd be great if someone would be interested in
>      making this map. :)
> 
>      I hope this sheds a bit of light, but rest assured that we're aware
>      of it, and are working on it. ;)
> 
> Yours,
> Daniel Ebdrup Jensen, with a doc hat on.

I've seen this happening in a few other places as well. I am wondering
about augmenting every page on the doc-legacy site with a big header
saying 'You have arrived at an old doc, go to docs.freebsd.org to find
the new one' or something.

-- 
Allan Jude


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