Обсуждение: URL alias for License
All, This URL works: http://www.postgresql.org/about/licence But this one does not: http://www.postgresql.org/about/license While the first URL is legitimate (British spelling), so is the second ... the more so because every instance of the word "License" in our license itself is spelled with an "s". Can we please have some kind of forwarding from the latter to the former or vice-versa? I keep getting IMs from people who tell me the license page is 404. -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://www.pgexperts.com
On 12/03/2010 11:13 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > All, > > This URL works: > http://www.postgresql.org/about/licence > > But this one does not: > http://www.postgresql.org/about/license > > While the first URL is legitimate (British spelling), so is the second > ... the more so because every instance of the word "License" in our > license itself is spelled with an "s". > > Can we please have some kind of forwarding from the latter to the former > or vice-versa? I keep getting IMs from people who tell me the license > page is 404. not sure I follow - those people are manually guessing at what the url for the licence text is or do we have broken links pointing to that page? Stefan
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote: > On 12/03/2010 11:13 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: >> >> All, >> >> This URL works: >> http://www.postgresql.org/about/licence >> >> But this one does not: >> http://www.postgresql.org/about/license >> >> While the first URL is legitimate (British spelling), so is the second >> ... the more so because every instance of the word "License" in our >> license itself is spelled with an "s". >> >> Can we please have some kind of forwarding from the latter to the former >> or vice-versa? I keep getting IMs from people who tell me the license >> page is 404. > > not sure I follow - those people are manually guessing at what the url for > the licence text is or do we have broken links pointing to that page? And why would they IM you, rather than emailing webmaster, or here? -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote: >> not sure I follow - those people are manually guessing at what the url for >> the licence text is or do we have broken links pointing to that page? > > And why would they IM you, rather than emailing webmaster, or here? Maybe Josh told them "go to www.postgresql.org slash about slash license" when he was in a room with them and they tried it and it didn't work. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
> Maybe Josh told them "go to www.postgresql.org slash about slash
> license" when he was in a room with them and they tried it and it
> didn't work.
Yep. Also I've seen people "correct" the spelling and get a 404.
-- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://www.pgexperts.com
On 12/06/2010 08:11 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > >> Maybe Josh told them "go to www.postgresql.org slash about slash >> license" when he was in a room with them and they tried it and it >> didn't work. > > Yep. Also I've seen people "correct" the spelling and get a 404. so you were in a room with those people and you told them the url in the above words and they found it was not working so they started their IM client to tell you (presumably still in the room) about it? Stefan
Le 06/12/2010 22:24, Stefan Kaltenbrunner a écrit : > On 12/06/2010 08:11 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: >> >>> Maybe Josh told them "go to www.postgresql.org slash about slash >>> license" when he was in a room with them and they tried it and it >>> didn't work. >> >> Yep. Also I've seen people "correct" the spelling and get a 404. > > > so you were in a room with those people and you told them the url in the > above words and they found it was not working so they started their IM > client to tell you (presumably still in the room) about it? > Maybe I had too much wine tonight (thanks to EDB's party in pgday.eu), but I don't see any reason to argue on this. Both speeling are valid, so both URL should be valid. That's not much work to do, right? or is it? because arguing on why people IM Josh is really irrelevant. -- Guillaumehttp://www.postgresql.frhttp://dalibo.com
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote: > Le 06/12/2010 22:24, Stefan Kaltenbrunner a écrit : >> On 12/06/2010 08:11 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: >>> >>>> Maybe Josh told them "go to www.postgresql.org slash about slash >>>> license" when he was in a room with them and they tried it and it >>>> didn't work. >>> >>> Yep. Also I've seen people "correct" the spelling and get a 404. >> >> >> so you were in a room with those people and you told them the url in the >> above words and they found it was not working so they started their IM >> client to tell you (presumably still in the room) about it? >> > > Maybe I had too much wine tonight (thanks to EDB's party in pgday.eu), > but I don't see any reason to argue on this. Both speeling are valid, so > both URL should be valid. That's not much work to do, right? or is it? > because arguing on why people IM Josh is really irrelevant. 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. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.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. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
Excerpts from Dave Page's message of mar dic 07 03:43:36 -0300 2010: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Alvaro Herrera > <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote: > > 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. I agree with that general policy, and I furthermore consider this one to be a pretty reasonable exception. I, too, have written the URL by hand only to get a 404. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 14:21, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Excerpts from Dave Page's message of mar dic 07 03:43:36 -0300 2010: >> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Alvaro Herrera >> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote: > >> > 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. > > I agree with that general policy, and I furthermore consider this one to > be a pretty reasonable exception. > > I, too, have written the URL by hand only to get a 404. I've applied a patch that redirects this in the proper place - the one Stefan did only redirected it on wwwmaster, which is not where the end user will see it... -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 14:21, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote: >> Excerpts from Dave Page's message of mar dic 07 03:43:36 -0300 2010: >>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Alvaro Herrera >>> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote: >> >>> > 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. >> >> I agree with that general policy, and I furthermore consider this one to >> be a pretty reasonable exception. >> >> I, too, have written the URL by hand only to get a 404. > > I've applied a patch that redirects this in the proper place - the one > Stefan did only redirected it on wwwmaster, which is not where the end > user will see it... > Interestingly the text on the page uses the "License" form :) - Martin -
Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of sáb dic 11 14:09:04 -0300 2010: > I've applied a patch that redirects this in the proper place - the one > Stefan did only redirected it on wwwmaster, which is not where the end > user will see it... Thanks! -- Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support