release-notes-ISO word not needed in URL -- use short, clean URLs

Karsten Wade kwade at redhat.com
Fri Jul 21 17:36:16 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 00:14 +0100, Dimitris Glezos wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Just noticed that the english release notes page on the static website 
> has the following URL:
> 
>    http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/release-notes-ISO/
> 
> The last "directory" contains a word already in the URL (release-notes) 
> and another word (ISO) that gives no useful information to the user. A 
> better URL would be:
>
>    http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/

Except there is a difference.

release-notes/fc5/ == an index.html that has links to:
  * The as-shipped ISO notes with all translations
  * The Web-only relnotes with all translations

So, the ISO does convey some meaning.

I agree that release-notes is redundant. :)

- Karsten
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