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since 2012 and may be out of date.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")...? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT contact the mailing lists asking us to send them to you.