Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:16:40 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua> Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm -rf gallery/ Message-ID: <20040304131640.GC368@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20040303224341.GA46002@phantom.cris.net> References: <20040303193809.GE300@jenny.daemon.li> <20040303224341.GA46002@phantom.cris.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:43:41AM +0200, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > hi, > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:38:09PM +0100, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > > > as i did not get much feedback on my request for comments > > about removing the gallery i make it short: > > > > any objections to me removing the gallery > > (www/en/gallery/) from the website? > > > > why? it is hard to maintain, it is no real benefit > > and most links are broken anyway. > > Hmm... Maybe... I thought about its historical status few > times before. But never got to overhauling or removing it. It's > good that this question is re-appeared again. > > As maintainer of gallery (and ex-maintainer of commercial gallery) I would > agree with you arguments about "hard maintaince". I maintain it in > semi-automatic mode due to historical reasons. It does not take too much > time to handle incoming entries, cleanup and commit them, but checking > for 404's and re-born sites is similar to nightmare. I have semi-automatic scripts half written that check the URLs in the gallery. I got bored of it real soon, but if there's a need then I'll run them back up again. My plan was to keep them all in a database and remove them after three consecutive failures (checked once or twice a week). Obviously this doesn't catch porn sites and the like, but they do say that the pornography industry is a fantastic testing ground for stable technology ;-) Ceri -- [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFARyw4ocfcwTS3JF8RAmlIAJ4zBJntlEnDoT6e9PjLZTc3obZgEACePRZc bKvVleEFCAUT7o9PyEkOCX4= =Zulm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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