Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:43:41 +0200 From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua> To: Josef El-Rayes <josef@freebsd.org> Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm -rf gallery/ Message-ID: <20040303224341.GA46002@phantom.cris.net> In-Reply-To: <20040303193809.GE300@jenny.daemon.li> References: <20040303193809.GE300@jenny.daemon.li>
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hi, On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:38:09PM +0100, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > as i did not get much feedback on my request for comments > about removing the gallery i make it short: > > any objections to me removing the gallery > (www/en/gallery/) from the website? > > why? it is hard to maintain, it is no real benefit > and most links are broken anyway. Hmm... Maybe... I thought about its historical status few times before. But never got to overhauling or removing it. It's good that this question is re-appeared again. As maintainer of gallery (and ex-maintainer of commercial gallery) I would agree with you arguments about "hard maintaince". I maintain it in semi-automatic mode due to historical reasons. It does not take too much time to handle incoming entries, cleanup and commit them, but checking for 404's and re-born sites is similar to nightmare. But if you'll look on /gallery/ closely you see that there's a some gallery of PoweredBy images, and I don't agree to see them removed (many times I used them as source for my websites, and quite sure others too). Next - it should be announced on news page, submission script should be disabled (or better replaced with dummy one indicating that service is down), hub's stuff need to be cleaned up, etc. Conclusion, I'd like to see patches before they'll be committed. -- /* Alexey Zelkin && Independent Contractor */ /* phantom(at)FreeBSD.org && http://www.FreeBSD.org/java */ /* phantom(at)cris.net && http://www.FreeBSD.org.ua/ */
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