On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:09 AM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 22/01/2019 18:13, Christopher Schultz wrote: > > All, > > > > Would it be okay to link to another web site -- specifically, > > Wikipedia -- in the Tomcat documentation? > > > > I'd like to link to the page on "block cipher modes" from the > > EncryptInterceptor documentation. > > > > We have links to Oracle's documentation, so I'm guessing this would be > > okay, but I wanted to check. > > I can't think of any reason not to. > I think that as a policy though, the links should be "nofollow", or else we will start receiving pull requests from random sources who would want to get a link to their sites. Follow links from the Tomcat site and/or documentation can be very valuable for SEO purposes, and if users would think that they can sneak in a link they would do so. While Wikipedia and the Oracle site are fine with regular links, making this a "policy" will help avoid the future discussions about which link qualifies for a "follow" link. Igal Igal
