MAJOR CHANGES

Author: meator

README.md

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+# MAJOR CHANGES
+I am planning major changes to the website.
+https://meator.github.io/xbps-src-tutorials/ will be moved to
+https://xbps-src-tutorials.github.io/. The directory structure will also be
+modified. For example
+
+```
+https://meator.github.io/xbps-src-tutorials/xbps-src-tutorial/packaging-j4-dmenu-desktop.html
+```
+
+will become
+
+```
+https://xbps-src-tutorials.github.io/packaging/j4-dmenu-desktop.html
+```
+
+This change will make the URLs more concise. It also provides some advantages
+for Google search. To give an example, Google doesn't show the favicon for
+`https://meator.github.io/xbps-src-tutorials/` because it [doesn't like
+subdirectory-level home
+pages](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/favicon-in-search).
+
+Contents of the website will not be changed (some links will be fixed, but the
+tutorials will remain).
+
+This is the first major breaking change and hopefully the last one. I want to
+make these changes while the website is still "in its infancy". This change
+should be pretty much final, so your bookmark will be safe after you update it
+to `https://xbps-src-tutorials.github.io/`.
+
+A new repository will be created under the [xbps-src-tutorials GitHub
+organisation](https://github.com/xbps-src-tutorials). It will be based off (but
+not forked from) this repo. This is done to allow for the
+`https://xbps-src-tutorials.github.io` URL.  However, this repository will stay
+and so will `https://meator.github.io/xbps-src-tutorials/`.
+
+`https://meator.github.io/xbps-src-tutorials/` will be modified. It will be
+replaced by a website that redirects the user to
+`https://xbps-src-tutorials.github.io` (redirect verbally, not by using HTML
+redirects). A HTML redirect will not be made because the readers should be aware
+that the URL has changed and that they should update their bookmarks if they
+have bookmarked `https://meator.github.io/xbps-src-tutorials/`.
+
+This repository will no longer accept contributions. All contribution efforts
+should be moved to the new repository.
+
 # Xbps-src tutorials
 This is a collection of tutorials describing the `xbps-src` package build system
 of Void Linux. It is made using [mdBook](https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/).