Other that, the other solution I can think of would involve the creation a coreboot-webreferences git repo (or wiki page, or something else) where people have to make mandatory backup copies of any web-content they reference on commit-messages and any other documentation. That solution is certainly a bit harder to maintain, but much more robust if your goal is to make sure the info will not be lost. There's a catch with copyright law in that case, though... but there could arguably be a defense based on historical preservation purposes similar to the Archive.org project.
2017-08-15 0:51 GMT-03:00 Felipe Sanches <[email protected]>: > It is not perfect, off course! > But it is their stated mission to do the best for the longevity of the > preserved data and they seem serious enough about that goal. And it is > definitely better than the current state of not backing up web-references > anywhere. > > 2017-08-15 0:40 GMT-03:00 ron minnich <[email protected]>: > >> Why are you assuming that the internet archive will be here in 20 years >> :-) >> >> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 8:32 PM Felipe Sanches <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> There's a rather simple solution to that: stipulate that any link in >>> commit messages must be first saved on the Internet Archive's Wayback >>> Machine. That is as easy as pasting the original URL into a text field in >>> this page and clicking the "Save Page Now" button: >>> >>> https://archive.org/web/ >>> >>> 2017-08-14 21:44 GMT-03:00 ron minnich <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> This is an interesting headline: >>>> >>>> "I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links >>>> Worked" >>>> >>>> What's interesting? That's only 5 years before linuxbios started. I can >>>> make the totally unwarranted claim that the half life of a link is around >>>> 12 years. I justify this claim with one bogus data point, namely, this >>>> headline :-) >>>> >>>> But still, what's amazing is when I did a check, about 15 years after >>>> linuxbios began, about 25% of the links were in fact dead. So the 12 year >>>> number may not be great, but ... maybe it's not that bad either. >>>> >>>> And now you know why I don't like links in commit messages :-) >>>> >>>> ron >>>> >>>> -- >>>> coreboot mailing list: [email protected] >>>> https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >>>> >>> >
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