From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 14:42:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9753916A4CE; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:42:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from phantom.cris.net (phantom.cris.net [212.110.130.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DEED43D1D; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:42:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua) Received: from phantom.cris.net (phantom@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phantom.cris.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i23MhhRR046233; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:43:43 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua) Received: (from phantom@localhost) by phantom.cris.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i23Mhg3O046232; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:43:42 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from phantom) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:43:41 +0200 From: Alexey Zelkin To: Josef El-Rayes Message-ID: <20040303224341.GA46002@phantom.cris.net> References: <20040303193809.GE300@jenny.daemon.li> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040303193809.GE300@jenny.daemon.li> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: doc@freebsd.org cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm -rf gallery/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 22:42:27 -0000 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/ */