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since 2012 and may be out of date.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")...?
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