[Haskell-cafe] Final steps in GHC's Trac-to-GitLab migration

[Tobias Dammers]

For context: there is a total of 22 pages that use the redirect feature.

So it may actually be feasible to just do this manually.

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 01:05:28PM +0100, Tobias Dammers wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 06:09:35AM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote:
> > The lacking redirect support is unfortunate. In my opinion this is something we will need to handle going forward as well; a one time solution like adding nginx redirects doesn't seem like the right approach to me. 
> > 
> > I would rather advocate either option 3 or one of the following options:
> > 
> >  5. Detect redirects and convert them to symbolic links in the repo
> >  6. Request redirect support in the gitlab wiki.
> 
> OK, I'll see what I can do about option 3. Option 5 is something that I
> believe we can still do after the fact if need be. Option 6, I think, we
> should do anyway, because we will want that feature for future pages,
> and the solutions outlined so far only take care of existing pages.
> 

-- 
Tobias Dammers - tdammers at gmail.com