Re: My book

Le 27 janvier 2012 11:46, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> a écrit :
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:39, Cédric Villemain
> <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Le 27 janvier 2012 11:32, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> a écrit :
>>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Cédric Villemain
>>> <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> Le 27 janvier 2012 10:35, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> a écrit :
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 05:02, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>>>>>> It seems my book content, PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, is no
>>>>>> longer on your web site.  It is listed here near the bottom:
>>>>>
>>>>> (hey, it's your website too :P)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>        http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> but the book content it points to is invalid:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/awbook/
>>>>>
>>>>> Right. The contents were removed because it covered very old versions
>>>>> of the db. We should obviously remove the link as well - I'll go do
>>>>> that - while keeping the name itself. Or would you like us to link it
>>>>> to somewhere else?
>>>>
>>>> It seems the recent changes in our infra are breaking URL .
>>>> For me this is a very bad idea and most websites upgrade try to not
>>>> break references to them.
>>>> Breaking links is the garantee to make a lot of people unhappy. (both
>>>> readers and writers)
>>>
>>> We didn't break any URLs intentionally (we went out of our way to
>>> maintain the old ones in fact) - except where we removed out of date
>>> content. Noone expects websites to maintain all their content
>>> indefinitely.
>>
>> Don't read me wrong: I am speaking about URL, not page content.
>>
>> There is a hudge difference between:
>> «The URL you specified does not exist.»
>> and
>> «This page was outdated and has been removed.»
>>
>> Not speaking in place of Bruce for his book, but here it is not very
>> polite to let him discover that alone.
>
> He was told before (of course), and has either forgotten, or his mail
> was just in reference to the link on the books page that we forgot to
> remove.
>

oh! sure it sounds better, sorry for the noise and my reaction then.

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