Hi,

On Thu, 05.02.2009 at 21:30:37 +0000, Stefan Seefeld <issues@roundup-tracker.org> wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> > I would prefer to move the docs in the website back to the old location
> > so that all installed tracker links work, old mailing list discussions
> > are still valid and search engine searches still work.
> OK. I agree it makes sense not to break compatibility without a good 
> reason. I'm not sure though what exactly needs to be done, as I don't 
> know under what name(s) / URLs documentation has been referred to.

my guess is, that unless you can access SF's access logs, there is no
good way finding out which links broke.

> Toni's example was http://roundup.sourceforge.net/doc-1.0/, which could 

This link is hard-coded in the 'page.html' templates. I am also in
favour of not breaking backwards compatibility ("cool URLs never
change"), and would suggest either of the following:

> be solved either by a local link, or an URL rewrite.

If this turns out to be infeasible, I'd say that it would be good to
put up a placeholder page, also set as a 404 error document, that says
something like "The project has moved to a new website. Please click
.... to go to the new website.", or similar.

Kind regards,
--Toni++