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Allow users to reference the alias field from web-features

Open jcscottiii opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments
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Sometimes features are renamed and the old id is moved to the alias field.

A user should be able to go to https://webstatus.dev/features/<alias> and be redirected to the page for the main id.

cc: @foolip

jcscottiii avatar May 29 '24 14:05 jcscottiii

Yep, redirects is what I had in mind with the alias field.

foolip avatar May 31 '24 21:05 foolip

That being said, I guess that zero people depend on the aliases that we have so far. It might be a good idea to just remove all of them and not claim those identifiers forever.

I'm sure we'll eventually need to support redirects for mistakes and merged features, however.

foolip avatar Jun 05 '24 15:06 foolip

We deleted this field in https://github.com/web-platform-dx/web-features/pull/1450 ahead of the 1.0 release. Starting from a clean slate. We might need it again in the future, but it's OK to close this issue for now.

foolip avatar Jul 19 '24 16:07 foolip