Re: Documentation hiding
On 10-07-2010 11:54, Stefan Ram wrote:
Arne Vajh?j<arne@vajhoej.dk> writes:
The URL's should not matter much.
Yes, but:
?Cool URIs Don't Change?
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/uri
Now, suddenly thousands of link collections are partially
invalidated and many hours are spend to update links all
around the world without any additional benefit.
Keeping URL's is good.
But in case of a merger like this, then a change is almost
unavoidable. One of the things Oracle paid all that money for
is for the Java name. They want something for that money.
The reason behind the URL's are probably the use of some
portal/CMS system.
That should not be an excuse. After all, the software should
follow and implement the policies chosen by humans. Humans
should not instead follow and implement what their software
requires. A capable engineer should be able to implement any
wanted URI naming scheme with a CMS.
It is not practical to have the CMS internally use the old
URL's.
Of course they could rewrite all URL's from old to new.
But apparantly they decided not to bother with that.
Arne