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Cannot fix out-of-date project links
I'm trying to update the out-of-date links for my project: https://www.ohloh.net/p/littlego/links. Whenever I try to remove the old Homepage
or Download
link I get an empty page in response and the stale link is not removed.
As an afterthought: I have been able to fix the issue tracker link on the Little Go
project, it's just the Homepage
or Download
links that seem to be stuck
.
Also note that I just added a new project. With that project, link editing works correctly, so the issue seems to be related to the single project.
It still doesn't work :-(
It's pretty hopeless, but just in case an admin is reading this: Could you please remove the Homepage
and Download
link from the project mentioned in the original post? Or replace both links with the URL http://littlego.herzbube.ch/.
Patrick,
I think the problem may be that the links and their contents were created by The Ohloh Hamster
and may only be able to be deleted by that nonexistent entity. See the edits pages. I can see if I can get management to do some magic to get them updated or deleted or perhaps change their ownership somehow.
Standby...
I have this same issue attempting to update the Downloads and Community links for the cloudfoundry project.
Standing by... :-)
No longer standing by...
I have found a crude workaround for the problem: Rename the project, mark the project as deleted, then create a new project that uses the original name and Ohloh URL, but has the external project links fixed.
The rename
step is necessary because the original project is not really deleted and, in its zombie state, continues to occupy the Ohloh namespace. For those project managers who want to do the same, make sure that you rename both the project name and the project URL (you do this in the Basics
screen of the project settings). And in case you wonder how you can mark a project deleted: You do this in the Ohloh Edit History
screen of the project settings, by going to the very first entry that says Created project
, and then clicking on the entry's Undo
button (this is explained in the FAQ).
In case an admin is reading this: You can kill (aka destroy, annihilate, utterly wipe out) this zombie project: https://www.ohloh.net/p/littlego-old
I guess my main concern with this workaround is that by marking the project as deleted, at some point in the future it might get cleaned up
and actually deleted. When I have ~80 repos configured as part of the project I'd really rather not have to go through the steps of having to recreate it all from scratch later if it does go wrong.
Andy and Patrick,
IF the 80 repos are double-enlisted in at least two projects, they will be unaffected by the deletion of one of those (theoretically, of course.) I've had no problems with it so far but you can't say never. I've had not much luck deleting old projects anyway but the code slingers certainly can.
Thanks!
... well, that's the point. I think what Patrick is saying is - mark existing project with all the config (repos, etc) as deleted and rename; create new project with old name, and fix just the URLs that we can't currently successfully edit, but make no other changes. I don't want to have to go through and create a new project and re-enlist all those repo URLs, that took a long time last week.
I appreciate Patrick's discovery of a workaround, but I don't understand why we can't edit those support and other URLs in the first place.
Andy,
In the case of Cloud Foundry, an ordinary user created the links for homepage and download and you should be able to replace them. I think they need to be removed and recreated from scratch if I remember right. The Edit Link
button is somewhat misleading and the operation is not very intuitive. The only edit
to be done is to re-title the link if that's what is needed. Let me know here if you can't get it to where you want.
Thanks!