Lessons Learned
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 22 08:27:37 UTC 2007
Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:34:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>>> 1) Having to search for the old Fedora Extras main page was "Very Funny"(TM).
>>> Apparently it's now called Fedora Packaging on the index. It's getting
>>> confusing.
>>>
>>> 2) The rename was incomplete in that everybody who is subscribed to the
>>> old page names, now has to update the Wiki preferences. E.g. presently
>>> I'm still subscribed to pages, which don't exist anymore because they have
>>> been moved somewhere.
>> Every single page renamed has already had redirects setup. So you dont
>> have to search for anything. I already send a announcement to
>> fedora-maintainers list about this describing what has been done explicitly.
>
> My personal subscriptions have not been changed to point to the moved
> pages. Updating them is a manual process, apparently. I've missed
> notifications about changes to one page till the person mailed me
> privately to ask about progress.
>
> I'm sure this was just an oversight in the reorganisation of the Wiki
> structure. But it should be allowed to point out that it caused trouble
> for some of us, and I'm certain it is not just me who is still not
> subscribed to the right pages again.
I believe page renames dont automatically change the subscriptions too.
If anyone has a easy way around that let me know. Otherwise maintainers
would have to change it manually themselves.
Rahul
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