On 6/16/2026 2:43 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:
On Jun 16, 2026, at 2:35 PM, Philippe Cloutier <[email protected]> wrote:
I may misunderstand what you are proposing, but I am skeptical about your 
proposal. To make an analogy with Wikipedia, it has countless outdated pages, 
and countless current pages, but pages in the first group have nothing logical 
in common, besides getting insufficient love. The English Wikipedia only (tries 
to) group outdated pages in a category to track pages which need work: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_with_obsolete_information

I fail to see how httpd webpages could be split. What I agree would be a good 
idea would be to add warnings on outdated content. Wikipedia templates allow 
doing it at the article section level, as in the following case: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Civil_Aviation_Organization#Environment
Template:Update also allows specifying a date, quantifying how bad the problem 
is.
[…]

Or are you saying there is content which you consider "historical", in the 
sense that it *should not* be updated? Perhaps examples of what you suggest qualifying as 
historical would clarify.
We’re discussing one. The list of contributors to the project is not 
*outdated*. It’s a historical record. It is still true and relevant, in that it 
gives credit to those who came before us.


It is still (largely) true and relevant, but that does not prevent it from being badly outdated.

Are you saying that you would qualify the Apache Contributors page as “historical”? And if so, would you qualify https://maven.apache.org/team.html the same way?

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