Re: Retiring legacyurls

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 10:45 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
wrote:

> 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>
> /about/news.<nnn> for news articles (it has been /about/news/<nn>/ for 10
> years now)
> /about/event.<nnn> for events (it has been /about/events/<nn>/ for 10
> years now)
> /community/signup (it's now /account/signup)
>
> I think all those should just be dropped. We could investigate if they are
> actually hit by anything, but meh, they're 10 years old and those are links
> that are just going to have to 404 in my opinion.
>
> Then it handles:
> /what/ever.html -> /what/ever/ rewrites.
>
> Slightly less sure about that one, but again, maybe we should just kill
> that one as well once and for all?
>
> Finally it has:
> /mailpref/<listname> - which used to redirect to mj2 and now redirects to
> pglister.
>
> That one we should probalby keep around a while?
>
> Finally, we also have some rules that are commented as "legacy even on the
> old site", meaning they were legacy 10 years ago:
>
> /developer/sourcecode/ -> /developer/coding/
> /developer/bios/ -> /community/contributors/
> /docs/tecdocs/ -> wiki
> /docs/faqs.FAQ.html -> wiki/FAQ
> /docs/faqs.FAQ_DEV.html -> wiki/Development_information
> /docs/faqs.TODO.html -> wiki/Todo
> /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.
>
> 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.

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