Hi Thomas, On Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM GMT, Thomas Lange wrote:
at the end of September I've proposed the transparent solution to use chronicles.debian.org for the old pages, so there will be no change for the user beacause the old URLs will still work. But unfortunately neither you nor Jonathan had implemented this until now. Jonathan said on Nov 2nd that he would work on Debian things soon, but nothing had happended so far.
To be clear, I have begun work to support the removal of news from 2022. The first step is to get that content built and added to the Chronicles site, after which, I would work on the HTTP redirects.
I have hit some problems in generating the site content: The Chronicles site is forked from the main website source. My next intended step was to reach out to you/your team for advice on getting past the problems I have hit, and to understand what kind of fixes or improvements you would accept to the webwml repository (the problems I am hitting are all from that repository). For the delta for a recent rebuild (of exactly the same content as the last time I built it) has newly missing translations and lots of timestamp changes (build time) which I would like to not have. Were it welcome, I'd also like to move further away from recursive makefiles, so Make's dependency tracking could be more useful, and there'd be fewer serialisation/blocker points for parallel building.
I have not begun to work on supporting the removal of Release team content, because it was abundantly clear (to me) that Cyril did not want that content removed anyway, and until a resolution was found there, I didn't feel it was appropriate to be involved.
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