On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
James Cassell wrote:
> When I asked, the answer was that it costs money to do custom redirects,
> and the old site is going away "soon" so it would be overcome by events
> sooner or later.
This just shows how bad an idea it is to rely on third-party-hosted
services. If this were self-hosted Free Software on Fedora Infrastructure
(e.g., a self-hosted version of Discourse), changing the error page would be
a relatively small patch and cost absolutely nothing.
To be fair, the error page does (now) suggest the old site, but it's not a redirect.
Most users may be able to figure it out; I'm not convinced search engines will.
So why does Fedora let commercial third parties host critical project
infrastructure on the
fedoraproject.org domain?
The argument I've seen is limited community resources to do the work. (For this
reason, there's push to only self-host core competencies, and even whispers of
stopping Pagure development.)
V/r,
James Cassell