Website redesign did not preserve Permalinks

[sebbASF]

As the subject says; the website redesign did not preserve all Permalinks in updated pages.

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[bproffitt]

This is not helpful. Which specific permalinks were not preserved @sebbASF ?

[sebbASF]

The ones in the pages that were changed.
Renaming a section generally changes the Permalink.

Also the titles that were changed, as per: #227

I can probably write a script to find these, but I'm not keen to do so unless there is a firm commitment to restore the links.

[sebbASF]

Here is one example:
https://www-previous.staged.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#template-for-the-creation-of-powered-by-logos
is now
https://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#template-for-powered-by-logos

Whilst the new heading is shorter and better, that does not mean the old Permalink should no longer be supported.

[bproffitt]

This question has shown up multiple places both on GitHub and Jira. We knew this would happen, confirmed the right process w/ Infra, and intentionally did not write redirects for every single link.

• For content that stayed on the same page, it will direct to the top of that page.
• For content we moved from one page to a completely different page, we created a redirect.

Initially a few people may be confused, but it should be much easier to find stuff on the site now than before because the navigation is simpler.

The current site has code that automatically creates anchor links for every header on a page. This is a bad practice. In the future redesign, we will probably be eliminating this as it creates this issue any time you change a header on a page - it makes the site brittle / people never wanting to change anything because they’re afraid people can’t find what they need. A person shouldn’t rely on anchor links to find what they need, but rather good navigation and a decent search engine.

So, for the record, we will not be addressing this issue. It's not needed, and that is my final decision on this.

[sebbASF]

So is the plan to eliminate all in-page anchors, regardless of page length or content?

[bproffitt]

I believe the plan is to eliminate at least a majority of them, and certainly remove the function that auto-creates them. It has not been discussed in great detail, so I don't have the exact answer, and would not want to tell you the wrong thing.

[sebbASF]

Where is this plan being discussed?

[bproffitt]

When we get to it, likely on press@