On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 02:34:58PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > What about just updating those links everywhere to point to the new > package tracker? > > Do people feel that it's too early for this? IMHO, the right way to go about this is having a grace period during which both services are available and mutually link to each other. For now we should: - patch the "old" PTS to prominently show a link like "hey, you know that there is tracker.d.o now? take a look!". The link should exist on every package page and should point to the corresponding package page on the "new" PTS - patch the "new" PTS to have a link like "wanna go back to the old PTS? click here", and maybe add some language pointing people that miss some of the old features in the new implementation to how they can contribute. Bonus point: make the link appear only for people that come from the old PTS (e.g. by inspecting referrer HTTP headers) When we feel ready to do the big switch we should: - not bother going all around the Debian infrastructure to fix links to the old PTS in a big batch, but rather redirect old URLs to the new PTS at the HTTP level - bonus point: create new URLs that point to the old PTS (e.g. old-pts.debian.net) and keep them around for a while, depending on the acceptance that the new PTS will have gained in the community My 2 cents, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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