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Bug 336174

Summary:	Provide Speaking URLs for Eclipse Forums
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Ralf Sternberg <rsternberg>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Forums and Newsgroups inbox <forums-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	webmaster
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends on:	342708
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Description Ralf Sternberg

2011-02-02 17:47:39 EST

As an example, the RAP forum is located under
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=34

I'd suggest to create redirects to let this forum be accessible under
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/rap/

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2011-02-02 21:44:10 EST

We already have a similar mechanism which uses the NNTP newsgroup name:

http://eclipse.org/forums/eclipse.technology.rap

Comment 2 Ralf Sternberg

2011-02-03 03:22:40 EST

Great. I didn't know. Would it make sense to use these URLs as links on the overview page http://www.eclipse.org/forums/ ?

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2011-02-03 10:14:40 EST

It would. I'd have to hack into the Forum code some more.

Comment 4 Denis Roy

2011-04-13 14:28:29 EDT

I've been tinkering with an upgrade to the forum.  One of the templates supports friendly-er URLs, in the form of :

Link to a forum:
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/f/89/

Link to a thread:
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/206617/

Link to a message:
http://fud.eclipse.org/fud/index.php/mv/msg/206617/661389/#msg_661389


.. but when I opt to use that template, a host of other things cease to work, such as the collapsible "+" on the home page.

I'll investigate further, but I can't make any promises.

Comment 5 Denis Roy

2011-05-09 16:09:05 EDT

In addition to the eclipse-made shortcuts, with the upgraded forum the URLs are much easier.  For instance, this is a link to the newcomers forum:

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/i/2/

It won't get any nicer than this.