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 I'm part of Debian's web team and I like to remove old outdated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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