Redirect Chinese pages to English pages and shutdown the Chinese site

[MarkEWaite]

Describe your use-case which is not covered by existing documentation.

The Chinese language web site for Jenkins is outdated (last non-infra commit over 3 years ago), has no active maintainers, and is receiving bug reports when users follow the instructions on that site.

The Jenkins governance board meeting Feb 6, 2023 approved that the Chinese site be replaced with redirects to the English language pages. If Chinese translation contributors become involved again, we can consider reinstating the Chinese site.

Reference any relevant documentation, other materials or issues/pull requests that can be used for inspiration.

This will need more detailed planning before it is implemented. It is not enough to disable the Chinese pages. We need to assure that Chinese users are taken to the English language pages.

[lemeurherve]

Related: jenkins-infra/jenkins-io-components#70

[lemeurherve]

Related: #3086

[dduportal]

A few useful links about jenkins.io:

• https://github.com/jenkins-infra/kubernetes-management/blob/dbc04614259c15d4b95825bb53008d57e6d8feb0/clusters/publick8s.yaml#L221-L228
• https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/jenkinsio
• https://github.com/jenkins-infra/fastly/blob/main/services.tf

[dduportal]

cc @kmartens for info

[lemeurherve]

(FYI I added @kmartens27 as Triage member of this repo for assigning to this issue)

[kmartens27]

Thanks to @dduportal for meeting with myself and @MarkEWaite, we looked at the structure and configuration of the helm charts & ingress. Based on what we saw within these areas, there are multiple options to retire/redirect the Chinese site accordingly. We can change the path so that any URLs coming in with a /zh/ would be taken to the regular Jenkins site. Additionally, we can add a rewrite so that any requests that come in are redirected accordingly and without any sort of visual representation of the redirect. Ideally, we'd have the redirect configured so that there is no visible redirect page/transition.

[dduportal]

Postponed to January 2024