> On Apr 22, 2026, at 9:27 AM, Eric Covener <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 9:22 AM Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On Apr 15, 2026, at 9:11 AM, Eric Covener <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 8:57 AM Bowen, Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> I’m working through a task that I have had back-burnered for … well, a few
>>>> years … of bringing all of our docs into compliance with the style guide
>>>> (and actually codifying that style guide, rather than it just being
>>>> something we casually agreed to on IRC in the early 2000s! Yay!)
>>>>
>>>> Anyways, I got to
>>>> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/platform/netware.html and I am
>>>> wondering if this is something that is still in any sense relevant or
>>>> correct in 2026. Netware EOL’ed in 2009, and none of the Novell.com links
>>>> in the doc work, nor is there anything obvious to replace them with. Is it
>>>> time to drop all of the Netware stuff? If not, is there someone who can
>>>> work with me to make this document correspond with current reality?
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>>> I think it's long-abandoned and anything along the spectrum of remove
>>> or replace with placeholder is fine.
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>> Not sure what the way forward is here. It certainly appears that this module
>> is unmaintained, and probably nobody is using it. Is it time to call a
>> formal vote to deprecate/retire/remove this module?
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> +1 but would not necessarily wait for that if cleaning up docs.
Ok, what I’ve done is add a warning at the top of the Netware docs that say
that Netware is EOL and the doc is there for historical reference only, and all
links to Novell.com have been unlinked (just the text URL remains).
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Rich Bowen
[email protected]
