From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 05:16:46 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 4C0ED16A4CE; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:16:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from shaft.techsupport.co.uk (shaft.techsupport.co.uk [212.250.77.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 136C643D2F; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:16:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from cpc2-cdif3-6-0-cust204.cdif.cable.ntl.com ([81.103.67.204] helo=shrike.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by shaft.techsupport.co.uk with esmtp (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1AysiS-0006ZO-Ep; Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:16:44 +0000 Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1AysiP-0004ma-0r; Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:16:41 +0000 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:16:40 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Alexey Zelkin Message-ID: <20040304131640.GC368@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Alexey Zelkin , Josef El-Rayes , doc@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org References: <20040303193809.GE300@jenny.daemon.li> <20040303224341.GA46002@phantom.cris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040303224341.GA46002@phantom.cris.net> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: Josef El-Rayes 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: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:16:46 -0000 --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:43:41AM +0200, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > hi, >=20 > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:38:09PM +0100, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > =20 > > as i did not get much feedback on my request for comments > > about removing the gallery i make it short: > >=20 > > any objections to me removing the gallery > > (www/en/gallery/) from the website? > >=20 > > why? it is hard to maintain, it is no real benefit > > and most links are broken anyway. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. I have semi-automatic scripts half written that check the URLs in the gallery. I got bored of it real soon, but if there's a need then I'll run them back up again. My plan was to keep them all in a database and remove them after three consecutive failures (checked once or twice a week). Obviously this doesn't catch porn sites and the like, but they do say that the pornography industry is a fantastic testing ground for stable technology ;-) Ceri --=20 --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFARyw4ocfcwTS3JF8RAmlIAJ4zBJntlEnDoT6e9PjLZTc3obZgEACePRZc bKvVleEFCAUT7o9PyEkOCX4= =Zulm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r--