Re: Retiring legacyurls

Hi,

On 10/11/18 5:56 AM, Dave Page wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 10:45 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net
> <mailto:magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>> wrote:
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> We have a piece of code in legacyurls.py in the website project that
> handles URLs that are from the old website. And by old website I
> don't mean the one from half a year ago, I mean the one from 10
> years ago.
>
> This one handles:
> /about/press/presskit/<ver>.html.<language>

This one gave me momentary panic as we are a week away from the release
and I just assembled the presskit, but then I noticed that this does not
follow the current format at all, hence the whole "legacy" bit, so as
long as it does not break the release work, +1 for dropping.

> /about/license -> /about/licence
>
> Of those I suggest we keep the license redirect (some people
> consider American English not to be legacy after all), but nuke the
> rest.

+1 to keeping this; I've seen people linking to the US spelling of this.

>
> Thoughts? Any of them worthy of saving? Or does somebody actually
> think it's worth investing the work to track exactly how much that
> old stuff is used?
>
>
> Nah - drop 'em all.

*Drop them all except the /about/license

Thanks for reviewing all of this!

Jonathan