#1928 Mailing list migration: links to new lists from old lists
Closed: Fixed None Opened 14 years ago by dmalcolm.

= phenomenon =
Each of the lists migrated via ticket #1912, such as fedora-devel-list:
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
has this text:
{{{
Using fedora-devel-list
NOTE: This list has been migrated to a new server, you can find it at lists.fedoraproject.org. This page is for archival purposes only.
}}}

lists.fedoraproject.org redirects me to:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

To find the new version of the list, I need to know the new name of the list.

The new lists aren't showing up in Google searches; a search for "fedora devel" shows the old page as the top hit.

= reason =
This may well be thwarting search engine indexing; there's no easy automated way to go from one to the other.

= recommendation =
Iterate through the (old_name, new_new) pairs, updating the text on each of those redhat.com list pages to include the exact page corresponding to the new page for that list. For example, the link on https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list should point at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Do the message ids in the redhat.com system correspond to those in the new system? If so, then perhaps a series of redirects in the redhat.com httpd server might enable all of the links that show up in the old archives to point at the new archive, and might help our search engine results.


Looks like we had a bad redirect on lists.fp.o back then. The links there now go to the correct listinfo pages.

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