206106 - Create a community/ directory

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Wang]

there are too many files in the root directory, and Gerv doesn't
like it. we should create a community directory to keep him happy:

          community.html > community/index.html
community-etiquette.html > community/etiquette.html
          newsfeeds.html > community/newsfeeds.html
       wishlist-faq.html > community/ ?
                     ??? > community/user.html
           feedback.html > community/feedback.html
                irc.html > [trash]

-> Asa because I don't have CVS access to the wrapper :-(

Comment 1

[Brant Gurganus]

Agreed on all, bug the wishlist-faq and most of the other faqs should be in /faq
if we are going to reorganize a little

Be careful that all pages that link to these files are also updated.  This can
be somewhat difficult to find since I don't think lxr is available for gila.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Well, community.html should move in an ideal world, but there are too many links
to it, so it should stay where it is. This also means we don't need to change
the wrapper. The others will probably need redirects, apart from the etiquette
document, which hasn't been there long.

Brant: no lxr, true, but someone can pull the tree and use grep :-)

Gerv

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Why not a permanent redirect from /community.html to /community/? Then you don't
need to adjust all the links, only the most prominent ones, and you still have a
sane layout.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

We don't have much control over the webserver configuration; redirects are
currently done using HTML files which redirect using JavaScript or "click here."
I'd rather not do that for such a well-known URL.

Gerv

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> We don't have much control over the webserver configuration

Why? Let them change that, JS is utterly silly, we're not on GeoCities.

.htaccess would suffice. Oh, wait. Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6. duh. No idea
how you do per-file redirs there.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

> Why? Let them change that, JS is utterly silly, we're not on GeoCities.

This lack of control is not for want of trying.

> .htaccess would suffice. Oh, wait. Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6. duh. No 
> idea how you do per-file redirs there.

Well, quite :-)

Gerv

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

It's too late for this now - the idea was to tidy away the new support files for
community.html before their URLs were too widespread - but, after a month, we
can't do that any more. :-(

Gerv