[Development] Resolving the wiki situtation

Girish Ramakrishnan girish at forwardbias.in
Fri Apr 13 18:03:35 CEST 2012


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:57 AM,  <marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com> wrote:
> On 13/04/2012 08:50, ext Girish Ramakrishnan wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:56 AM,<alexandra.leisse at nokia.com>  wrote:
>>> Starting from Thursday next week, we will copy the pages that
>>> currently live on wiki.qt-project.org over to qt-project.org/wiki,
>>> below the "Developing Qt" category. It's not the perfect way of
>>> doing things but after long discussions, we agreed that it is the
>>> most pragmatic.
>>
>> Will the old pages redirect to the new one or will the domain
>> wiki.qt-project.org completely die after thursday? Ideally former
>> since we have lots of pages in wiki.qt-project.org but I can live
>> with the fact that it will completely die.
>>
>> I had also suggested that we make wiki.qt-project.org read-only to
>> Quim. Do you think we can just lock it starting this weekend?
>
> Ideally I would want wiki.qt-project.org to point to the valid wiki
> (which is now at qt-project.org/wiki). I really don't think we should
> spend time and effort keeping "backwards compatibility" with the old
> wiki entries.
>

I was hoping we could have a simple url rewrite, but I agree no more effort.

Some of our pages (like devices - http://wiki.qt-project.org/Devices
which went out in yesterday's blog post) will all be broken. But as I
said, I can live with that :)

Girish



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