Hi Andreas, another reason that I forgot was that we had too many versions of the installmanual and the release notes. For many old releases we've kept them in 14 languages for every architecture (around 10) for each old release. E.g.: https://web.archive.org/web/20230625201750/https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes https://web.archive.org/web/20230625201754/https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual
That made our own search engine produce very bad results, because often if shows results for old releases instead on hits from the newest installation manual. Our search engine cannot sort the result by date btw. Someone said we should fix this problem, but as noone worked on this I tried to produce better results by removing old content. I don't think that many people need the old version of the installation manual of releases, that are not supported by Debian or even by the LTS people any more. Do you think that people need the release notes because they want to install Debian jessie nowadays? We always have archive.org or softwareheritage for thoses information. In the past we've built every release note for two (or was it three?) releases 6 times a days regardless if the sources of the release notes had changed or not. I improved the build time a lot by adding code that only build them (for all languages and architectures) if something changed. Maybe you remember this improvement. I try to have the point of view from the user of our web pages. If they look or search for information on our web pages and get old and outdated search results, then our web page is useless for them. The ratio of old to new content on our webpages was very bad in the past. That's why I try to remove old content. -- regards Thomas
