Links to standards specs broken?

[Frederic Crozat]

Le mercredi 01 décembre 2004 à 12:17 +0100, Daniel Stone a écrit :
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:16 +0100, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 November 2004 16:12, Laszlo Kovacs wrote:
> > > Don't know if this is right alias ...
> > >
> > > Have a look at these pages:
> > >
> > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fcolorscheme_2dspec
> > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmenu_2dspec
> > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fwm_2dspec
> > >
> > > Links to all spec documents seem to be broken.
> >
> > Is anyone working on this? I would also like to have the original links 
> > working again, (e.g. http://freedesktop.org/Standards/menu-spec/) because 
> > those URLs have been used in various documents referring to these specs.
> > Also links like http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd 
> > give 404s at the moment.
> > 
> > The current state of the website hurst the credibility of freedesktop.org 
> > IMHO.
> 
> I would suggest a standards.freedesktop.org subsite, which hosts all of
> these, with redirects as appropriate.  I do not have the time to do
> these, so if anyone wants to contribute to this effort and help make
> fd.o a site that can be taken seriously again, please contact me.

The big problem atm is that files are now shipping with URL for those
DTDs so we can't change them (at least not directly..).

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at mandrakesoft.com>
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