From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 11:31:10 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: docs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B05106564A for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:31:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@db.net) Received: from diana.db.net (unknown [IPv6:2620:64:0:1:223:7dff:fea2:c8f2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65EE48FC12 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from night.db.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by diana.db.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7152AA5E0; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 05:31:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: by night.db.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3AD285C5C; Fri, 8 Jun 2012 06:31:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 06:31:04 -0500 From: Diane Bruce To: Mark Linimon Message-ID: <20120608113104.GA1720@night.db.net> References: <20120608083519.GA8252@lonesome.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120608083519.GA8252@lonesome.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: docs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: even more staleness on the web site X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:31:10 -0000 On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 03:35:19AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc>, > > Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org > Errors-To: owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org > X-UIDL: @HV"!&c'"!*i7!!M3'!! > X-SpamProbe: GOOD 0.0000071 a57306ee7894bacadb9daa4d034a6621 > Status: O > Content-Length: 2992 > Lines: 65 > > I'm very encouraged to see that folks are looking for staleness on the > FreeBSD.org website. > > Some of the attention recently has been focused on stale URLs. I'l like > to pop up one level and suggest that there are certain areas of the website > that have altogether outlived their usefulness, regardless of the state of > the URLs they contain. > > My ill-thought-out suggestion would be to somehow create a "historical > interest" section (subdirectory?) and to populate it with the following. > I'm, of couse, willing to entertain any suggestions, but these are the > ones that in the past have made me go "ew." We've talked about this on #bsddocs I agree. > > almost certainly need to move: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/checkpoint/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/dialup-firewall/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/euro/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/ > (nb: anything referencing "dedicated mode" *must immediately die*) > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/storage-devices/ > (nb: contains "what is SCSI". yeah baby.) > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/version-guide/ > (nb: abandoned for years. mea culpa. *must* be deleted. a > followon on the wiki would be welcomed.) > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/ > (nb: ohforf) > http://www.freebsd.org/kse/ > http://www.freebsd.org/smp/ > (as previously noted on IRC. but don't fix it, kill it. too stale to live.) This PR mostly fixes smp 168803 but I like the idea of removing it totally. > http://www.freebsd.org/y2kbug.html > (I shouldn't have to say this) Ouch! I've been looking for dead links. http://www.db.net/~db/log_404_uniq_june_6_2012.txt http://www.db.net/~db/report and http://www.db.net/~db/report.awk You will need www/linkchecker - Diane -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db Why leave money to our children if we don't leave them the Earth?