Hey steve!
On 8/21/18, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 06:40:23AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>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since 2012 and may be out of date.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 , page built ")...?
>
> See https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/merge_requests/21
> for a first attempt...
>
> --
> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.
> st...@einval.com
> "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have
> nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free
> speech because you have nothing to say."
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>
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