Re: Removing old news from webpages
Hello
El 18/7/25 a las 11:08, Sean Whitton escribió:
Hello,
No-one has spoken up in favour of the decision to remove the old news.
Shall someone just revert the commit removing it?
I support the decision of removing the old news from www.debian.org
The old (and new) news are sent by mail too, so they are available in
the mailing list archives. Having them in the website has some downsides:
* the website is too big, and building /News consumes energy and time.
In the last times it's better than before, but I support the goal to
have a small website that builds quicker and more energy efficient, and
also is smaller to be moved to a better engine (now wml+perl, very old
code that works well but it's not welcoming for newcomers).
* it contaminates the search results and consumes time+energy of our
validation scripts. One idea could be to just leave the static html
files and don't allow more translations/changes in those pages, but I
think that would not help with obtaining better search results.
* The historically relevant news (I know that "relevant" is a subjective
term) should maybe be integrated in debian-history packages or linked
from there to the corresponding mail in the archives.
* we (web team) are a small team and until now most of your Debian web
time is devoted to maintenance. Leaving things as it were (revert the
commits) it seems it's the easier but it leaves us continue living with
our old monster. Making the website smaller will allow us to make it
smarter and better organized.
* Maybe we can find a good way to make everybody happy, moving the
static html files to some other place and setting redirects, but that
also needs time and effort and personally my focus these weeks is in
other parts of the website (I'll try to rethink the /international/
folder, another monster...).
Kind regards
--
Laura Arjona Reina
https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
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