Hi, Thomas Lange <la...@cs.uni-koeln.de> (2023-09-05): > I'm part of Debian's web team and I like to remove old outdated > content. > > The reason is that we have too may web pages (more that 63.000 wml > files) and our search engine is not able to present search results > order by date.
That looks the search engine needs fixing then. > Currently I'm search for very old contents and I stumbled upon > https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/ > which lists all news from the past back to 2003. > > IMO News become irrelevant very fast, so keeping them on our web pages > does not make sense. What do you think about removing all past years > and only listing the news that are relevant to the current stable and > testing release. So we would not list debian installer news by year, > but just provide a list link to the news relevant for bookworm for e.g. > > What is your oppinion about this cleanup? I'm not convinced at all; it's frequent to go back and look when this or that change was introduced, and actively removing useful information due to technical limitations in a search engine doesn't seem convincing at all. > BTW, I'm on my way to DebConf. Will anyone from the installer team > also come to Kochi? I'm not. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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