Re: [coreboot] Why I don't like links in commit messages and comments ...

Not that anybody asked me but if the I formation in the link or a quote can fit in the commit message we can put it directly in the commit message? I doubt someone will write more than 8KiB of commit message even if you pay them to write longer messages. (: -- coreboot mailing list:

Re: [coreboot] Why I don't like links in commit messages and comments ...

2017-08-17 13:49 GMT+02:00 Peter Stuge : > Let's agree to disagree. Direct links are, well, direct; eliminating > an undesirable extra search step. Science today uses doi numbers/links, which plan for moves by addint indirection. > I think that broken links are a temporary problem

Re: [coreboot] Why I don't like links in commit messages and comments ...

I love it when you vent, Ron. :) ron minnich wrote: > I don't agree. You don't need links as long as you have google or its > competitors or successors. But that's just me, no need to continue this, Let's agree to disagree. Direct links are, well, direct; eliminating an undesirable extra search

Re: [coreboot] Why I don't like links in commit messages and comments ...

I don't agree. You don't need links as long as you have google or its competitors or successors. But that's just me, no need to continue this, I just thought it was funny that the 1994 had 0 working links :-) -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org

Re: [coreboot] Why I don't like links in commit messages and comments ...

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

Re: [coreboot] Why I don't like links in commit messages and comments ...

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

Re: [coreboot] Why I don't like links in commit messages and comments ...

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 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

Re: [coreboot] Why I don't like links in commit messages and comments ...

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/