We have project pages that need to redirect from the old to the new structure: e.g.: web/html/project/translations/ => web/html/About/Projects/translations/ ... Should we do manual, click-here redirects? Or do we have something more automagic we can do? I'm not against telling Apache directly, if that works better.
I would suggest doing something similar to linuxdoc.org to tldp.org redirects which are automatic but with a header on top ack the redirect click on http://linuxdoc.org for a demo.
I think that the automatic redirects which provide notifications are nice, but unfortunately impossible in our current setup. The pages are rendered automatically by a cron job. They are served statically. This prevents dynamic page creation and keeps us from using PHP to create automatic redirects. Directly altering the Apache configuration is not particularly scalable. The current solution is manual redirects. We have a very simple template system in place, and I gave it an update to make it more manageable earlier today. Until the current infrastructure is replaced, that's really the best we can do. Once that infrastructure is replaced, we should have better redirection capabilities. I'm closing this as WONTFIX. Consider this a lesson hard-learned for our team.