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On 04/08/14 22:38, Anne Gentle wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org
> <mailto:tom at openstack.org>> wrote:
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>     On 01/08/14 07:22, Tom Fifield wrote:
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>         On 30/07/14 22:36, Anne Gentle wrote:
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>             On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Christian Berendt
>             <berendt at b1-systems.de <mailto:berendt at b1-systems.de>
>             <mailto:berendt at b1-systems.de
>             <mailto:berendt at b1-systems.de>>__> wrote:
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>                   On 07/30/2014 07:52 AM, Tom Fifield wrote:
>                   > Please assign any broken link bugs for the opsgui.de
>             <http://opsgui.de>
>                   <http://opsgui.de> URLs to Anne or
>                   > myself, and we can easily fix them on bit.ly
>             <http://bit.ly> <http://bit.ly>. If
>                   anyone else is
>                   > interested in having access to change these URLs -
>             please let me know.
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>                   Ok. I'll open a bugreport with all broken URLs.
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>             Thanks for finding these Christian!
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>             I do agree the maintenance is a bit tougher with
>             shortened... we wanted
>             to try it for readability and I think it works nicely. But
>             we learn as
>             we go.
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>             If anyone has great ideas for grouping those shortened URLs
>             or otherwise
>             making something cool with them, I'd love to get more
>             mileage out of those.
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>         I may have been misled on the capabilities here.
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>         A beverage of your choice if you can find a way to update a link
>         target
>         in bit.ly <http://bit.ly> - I couldn't find how to do it yesterday.
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>     Anyone?
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> Nope, just went through all the API docs too and it appears they only
> shorten long URLs and don't think of it as a pointer service.

Thanks for checking!

We should approve this patch from Christian then, I think: 
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/111831/



>     If bit.ly <http://bit.ly> URLs can't be updated, we should remove
>     them as per Christian's plan, and also submit errata to the OReilly
>     book page.
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> Or, create a new short URL pointing to the correct long URL. But I don't
> think that's what we want.

Yeah, agreed. Do you want to tell OReilly that we have broken links? 
Otherwise, I think I know how to use the author portal to submit errata ...

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> Really, for printed books, it's better to do the footnote as mentioned
> in the other thread. I'll reply there too.
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>     Regards,
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>     Tom
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