From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-09-18T06:04:38+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc bug (and rdoc bug tracker site is down)

Dave Thomas wrote:
>
> On Sep 17, 2004, at 14:09, Brian Schr�der wrote:
>
> >> [...] tried to enter the rdoc bug-tracking system, but it gives me a
> >> warning that I'm not allowed to enter the page because I'm not an
> >> administrator. That seems odd.
> >
> > Ah, I see. I think it is this way because rdoc is no longer hosted on
> > sourceforge, but included in the ruby main tree.
> >
> > But a clearer error message would be helpfull.
>
> SourceForge are remarkably unhelpful when it comes to moving projects
> away. In effect they refused to remove rdoc, even though I pointed out
> that it was doing the community a disservice by keeping it there.
>
> Sigh...

I faced this same problem when I moved the One-Click Ruby Installer from
SourceForge to RubyForge. Here's what I did to minimize any user confusion
for users that ended up at SourceForge...

The main thing I did was to edit the project summary description to read:

    The Ruby Installer for Windows project
    has moved to RubyForge. Please go to
    http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/

This text shows up in sourceforge search results as well as at the top of
the project summary page.

In addition, I deleted all released files, and redirected the home web page
to the RubyForge project home page.

Curt