Bug 20428

Adding missing QA contact

A newer version has been posted at:
   http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/index.html
but we do need to update the copies on www.x.org/docs

Suggestion: assuming you use Apache, add to http://www.x.org/docs/.htaccess the lines

  Redirect temp /docs/XProtocol/ http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/x11proto/
  etc.

and to 

  http://www.x.org/releases/.htaccess

the single line

  Redirect temp /releases/current/ http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/

which will need updating at each release. This way, the old links will continue to link to the latest version, and people can in future easily link to e.g.

  http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/x11proto/proto.pdf

to get

  http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/x11proto/proto.html

or whatever the latest version is. (Using a "temporary" HTTP redirect is important here, because this way a linkchecker won't complain that our web pages contain out of date URLs if it finds this redirect.)
And then provide an index page that uses the "/releases/current/" link, such that people can easily copy out release-independent URLs.

Note: I see that you do already have apparently an (out of date!) symlink from

  http://www.x.org/releases/current/

to

  http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.4/

Symlinks are a bad idea on the web as they create two URLs for the same page in search engines. Better use HTTP redirects to achieve the same effect!

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