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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

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Laura Arjona Reina
https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona


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