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'ubunet' project name should redirect to 'ubuntuone-servers'

Asked by Paul Sladen

Add 'ubunet' as an alias to 'ubuntuone-servers' so that old URLs continue to work.

OLD DESCRIPTION:
If the interweb already has an existing link to:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubunet/+bug/375345

and the project named in the base URL is renamed, then the existing link will now be *broken* generating an unhelpful "Lost something?" error page. Ideally Launchpad should just do the right thing(tm) and return a permanently-moved redirect including the new project name; in this case:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-servers/+bug/375345

This could probably be done by the existing bug URL canonicalisation code simply being run for a *all* +bug/NNNNN link requests.

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This question was originally filed as bug #449092.

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Eleanor Berger (intellectronica) said : 		#1

The solution you proposed is problematic because we want to capture the relation between a bug and one of the targets in which it manifests in the URL. However, there's a much simpler solution that will work for other objects. Launchpad should rewrite the URL for a renamed project.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) said : 		#2

One way of fixing this would be (as I suggested in bug 317136 for a different reason) to make https://launchpad.net/bugs/NNN the canonical non-redirecting URL for any bug report in its first, and usually only, context.

See also bug 153763, the equivalent problem for disabled projects rather than renamed ones.

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : 		#3

Launchpad does support this feature. The person who requested the project rename should have also requested an alias to enable the redirect.

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Paul Sladen (sladen) said : 		#4

< sladen> wgrant: if the solution is to add a tick box (selected by default of course) to the LP admin renaming interface ("add redirect for old project name") then that's a solution---it's a change of workflow where something happens automatically
<wgrant> sladen: It's well known that if URLs need to not break, an alias should be added. I don't think there's much value in adding a special case.
<wgrant> But perhaps it is a valid request that such a checkbox should be added.

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : 		#5

Add the alias ubunet to ubuntuone-servers so that links to the old project continue to work

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Steve McInerney (spm) said : 		#6

Alias added.

Cheers!
- Steve

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