Re: URL alias for License

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: URL alias for License
Date: 2010-12-07 06:43:36
Message-ID: AANLkTi=GrcG5ey07vTzRK=7TCxYBMA7vYHEuNjG4spD_@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Dave Page's message of lun dic 06 22:27:03 -0300 2010:
>
>> It's not much work to implement (well, actually It might be some work
>> to push out from the master server - I don't recall if we do write an
>> htaccess file for that). What is more important is that we don't add
>> arbitrary rewrite rules for for pages that aren't where someone
>> expects them as a) that list could become long, and b) we need to
>> maintain, and keep track of those links in the future, especially if
>> the page locations do actually change and we need to rewrite to the
>> new locations.
>
> Given that it's so much work to have a redirect, the solution is simple:
> just change the page from licence to license.  Surely no Brit is even
> going to notice.

I didn't say it was "so much work" (actually, I suggested it was
probably the opposite) - I was arguing that we shouldn't create a
system of redirects to maintain ad-infinitum for zero practical gain.

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