Bug#905440: www.debian.org: remove "last modified" from footer
Hey steve!
On 8/21/18, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 06:40:23AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 07:32:17PM +0200, Laura Arjona Reina wrote:
>>>>
>>>>The last commit on index.wml was in 2014, which only changed http to
>>>>https, so no real content change. In fact, the content didn't changed
>>>>since 2012 and may be out of date.
>>>
>>>The content is current.
>>>
>>>>Please just remove this useless information from every page.
>>>
>>>The date shown is the date of last build. This can be the date when
>>>something changed in the page (content or layout), in the templates
>>>used to build that page (e.g. a change in the footer), or a force
>>>rebuild for any reason.
>>>
>>>We probably change the string from "Last modified" to something else
>>>("Last build" or other wording), but I don't think that it is useless
>>>and we should remove it (I'm open to listen to other opinions,
>>>though).
>>
>>Definitely it should stay - a major part of the usefulness of many
>>pages is "can I trust this to be up to date?". If desired, I'm happy
>>to prod the wml tooling to give us more useful data ("page content
>>last modified XXXX, page built YYYY")...?
>
> See https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/merge_requests/21
> for a first attempt...
>
> --
> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.
> steve@einval.com
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