[csw-maintainers] Can we get bugs.opencsw.org & opencsw.org/bugs (redirects to Mantis)?

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Sebastian,

Am 17.10.2011 um 14:10 schrieb Sebastian Kayser:
> * Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Am 16.10.2011 um 12:48 schrieb Sebastian Kayser:
>>> currently we have
>>> 
>>> opencsw.org/bugtrack
>>> opencsw.org/mantis
>>> 
>>> as entry points to our bugtracker. Can we also get
>>> 
>>> bugs.opencsw.org
>> 
>> This used to link to the "new" JIRA bugtracker until I turned the VM off.
> 
> I'd vote for changing bugs.opencsw.org into a redirect to
> opencsw.org/bugs/. Otherwise, having two similar URLs point to different
> systems might be confusing. If further efforts are made on
> $anotherbugtracker, use opencsw.org/bugs-$anotherbugtracker.
> 
>>> opencsw.org/bugs
>> 
>> Should this be a redirect? Or
>>  opencsw.org/bugs/id/(\d+) -> http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=$1
>>  opencsw.org/bugs/maintainer/(\s+) -> http://www.opencsw.org/buglist/maintainer.cgi?maintainer='$1'
>>  opencsw.org/bugs/pkg/(\s+) -> http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/set_project.php?project_id=<id($1)>
> 
> Cool, that's a good starting point. I'd say both. opencsw.org/bugs/xxx
> as redirects for specific resources (like above) plus a temporary
> redirect from /bugs/ to the main $bugtracker page. With some time and
> ideas, /bugs/ can be changed from a redirect to a portal or search page.
> 
> Can you access the pkg -> id mapping required for the third URL type
> from the apache config or how would you implement the redirection?

I guess a rewrite to a cgi generating the target would be best

However, you need root on the webserver for this. Would you mind adding the above
redirects yourself?


Best regards

  -- Dago



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