On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:45:46 +0100, Thomas Lange<la...@cs.uni-koeln.de> wrote:
(First, no need to CC me, I read the list) - >Hi Andreas, > >another reason that I forgot was that we had too many versions of the >installmanual and the release notes. For many old releases we've kept >them in 14 languages for every architecture (around 10) for each old release. >E.g.: >https://web.archive.org/web/20230625201750/https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes >https://web.archive.org/web/20230625201754/https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual > > >That made our own search engine produce very bad results, because >often if shows results for old releases instead on hits from the >newest installation manual. Our search engine cannot sort the result >by date btw. Someone said we should fix this problem, >but as noone worked on this I tried to produce better results by >removing old content. I don't think that many people need the old >version of the installation manual of releases, that are not supported >by Debian or even by the LTS people any more. Do you think that people >need the release notes because they want to install Debian jessie >nowadays? We always have archive.org or softwareheritage for thoses >information. Ah, that is a very much better explanation to why the content has been removed, yes. That indeed answers my questions. Of course I don't think that it is wrong, IF it has a good reason (which I've got here). Thank you! But, with that said - communication could probably have been better. As you probably have seen, some of the translators have re-added the translations after you have removed them, which obviously shouldn't be done. (I won't of course re-add the Swedish ones now, after your explanation). > >In the past we've built every release note for two (or was it three?) >releases 6 times a days regardless if the sources of the release notes >had changed or not. I improved the build time a lot by adding code >that only build them (for all languages and architectures) if >something changed. Maybe you remember this improvement. I do, and I thank you for it. > >I try to have the point of view from the user of our web pages. If >they look or search for information on our web pages and get old and >outdated search results, then our web page is useless for them. The >ratio of old to new content on our webpages was very bad in the >past. That's why I try to remove old content. > Thanks for the explanation - I appreciate it. -- Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se andr...@ronnquist.net
