<div><br>Automated re-directs are great. . . until they don't work :-(</div>
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<div>I've copied this to the wiki-gang so that they are aware of the opportunity to chip in on updating the documentation (repointing links) for the Localization process on the wiki.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sayamindu@gmail.com">sayamindu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I'll probably put up a large notice on as many l10n related wiki pages<br>I can find to use <a href="http://translate.sl.org/" target="_blank">translate.sl.org</a> or <a href="http://translate.laptop.org/" target="_blank">translate.laptop.org</a> so that<br>
this confusion does not repeat.<br>Thanks,<br>Sayamindu<br>
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<div class="h5"><br><br>On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Ed McNierney<<a href="mailto:ed@laptop.org">ed@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Chris -<br>> Thanks. Yes, he should, and would have - if he had known.<br>> There are two problems here. Users had been using <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/translate" target="_blank">dev.laptop.org/translate</a>,<br>
> which had been redirecting to <a href="http://translate.laptop.org/" target="_blank">translate.laptop.org</a>. That was/is still<br>> working, but it should be redirecting people to <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">translate.sugarlabs.org</a>.<br>
> The server running <a href="http://translate.laptop.org/" target="_blank">translate.laptop.org</a> was supposed to also redirect users<br>> to <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">translate.sugarlabs.org</a>, and it would have done so if the machine were<br>
> working. It seems that that machine went down sometime about a day ago and<br>> no one noticed or responded to it.<br>> So what happened was that <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/translate" target="_blank">dev.laptop.org/translate</a> redirected to<br>
> <a href="http://translate.laptop.org/" target="_blank">translate.laptop.org</a>, which went nowhere. What should have happened is that<br>> <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/translate" target="_blank">dev.laptop.org/translate</a> redirected to <a href="http://translate.laptop.org/" target="_blank">translate.laptop.org</a>, which should<br>
> have been a DNS alias to <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">translate.sugarlabs.org</a>. This would have produced<br>> the right result even if awk (the server responding to <a href="http://translate.laptop.org/" target="_blank">translate.laptop.org</a>)<br>
> was offline.<br>> Deep is back in action thanks to Sayamindu's help last night, and I'm<br>> responsible for fixing up the DNS work.<br>> - Ed<br>><br>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Chris Leonard wrote:<br>
><br>> Shouldn't Deep be using <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://translate.sugarlabs.org/</a> ?<br>><br>> The Tamil and Sinhala projects respectively.<br>><br>> <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ta/" target="_blank">http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ta/</a><br>
><br>> <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/si/" target="_blank">http://translate.sugarlabs.org/si/</a><br>><br>> cjl<br>><br>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Ed McNierney <<a href="mailto:ed@laptop.org">ed@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>><br>>> Begin forwarded message:<br>>><br>>> From: Ed McNierney <<a href="mailto:ed@laptop.org">ed@laptop.org</a>><br>>> Date: June 18, 2009 7:16:04 PM EDT<br>>> To: <a href="mailto:sysadmin@laptop.org">sysadmin@laptop.org</a><br>
>> Subject: <a href="http://translate.laptop.org/" target="_blank">translate.laptop.org</a> is not responding at all<br>>> Deep from Sri Lanka is trying to use <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/translate" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/translate</a> and<br>
>> it is not working at all. I can't connect to it, either. The URL redirects<br>>> to <a href="http://translate.laptop.org/" target="_blank">translate.laptop.org</a>, which doesn't respond. This seems relatively<br>
>> urgent and serious for the folks doing the Tamil and SInhala translations.<br>>><br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Olpc-sysadmin mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:Olpc-sysadmin@lists.laptop.org">Olpc-sysadmin@lists.laptop.org</a><br>
>> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sysadmin" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sysadmin</a><br>>><br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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><br>><br><br><br><br></div></div><font color="#888888">--<br>Sayamindu Dasgupta<br>[<a href="http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings" target="_blank">http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings</a>]<br></font></blockquote>
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