Re: The sad state of git.wiki.kernel.org

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 4, 2023, 14:03 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD1q7-XbX4C_NjyL7A-6n6Nc4MgSbUKnzQOiRyKRMtLv_w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Y95BEaOGJy9uBHkG@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 12:48 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 01:22:55PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

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> > # Should it be archived as a static site?
> >
> > It's possible to turn git.wiki.kernel.org into a static site with a large
> > header on every page that it contains historical archival information, with a
> > link to https://git-scm.com/doc
>
> This would be my preference, just because some of the old content may
> still have value. Some pages (like old gsoc stuff) would better redirect
> to git.github.io, but it is probably not worth the time to even try to
> classify pages.

This would be my preference too. I agree that some old content might still have some value. We could also move or redirect some old content to git.github.io, but I am not sure it's worth the time either.

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> > # Should it be archived and put out of its misery?
> >
> > The last option is to just archive the site and put it out of its increasingly
> > irrelevant existence.
>
> I'm also OK with this, though if it is not too much work to serve the
> old content with a warning that it may be out-of-date, that seems
> better.

I agree.

Thanks, Christian.