Re: Forwarding from bugs on old w3.org Bugzilla system

Olivier, Group,

A quick interim course of action might be to do a bulk edit and change all of these bugs’ status to something other than NEW while applying a uniform comment to all of them indicating the new location of the Web Audio bug list.

Does this seem reasonable?

…Joe


On Jul 30, 2014, at 9:49 PM, Alan deLespinasse <adelespinasse@gmail.com> wrote:

> Would it be practical to put a forwarding link on each old Bugzilla bug that points to its new GitHub location? It took me a while to figure out that the Bugzilla system was no longer up to date. For example, there is nothing here:
> 
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17793
> 
> to indicate that it has moved here:
> 
> https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues/6
> 
> The old locations still come up in web searches, so it's an easy mistake to make.
> 
> Or is there a plan to completely shut down Bugzilla or something?



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