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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:34:37
Message-Id: 42A86FCE.7020900@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website by Sven Vermeulen
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4 Sven Vermeulen wrote:
5 > Many Gentoo developers have written articles about Linux and Gentoo on
6 > third-party sites. The articles page [1] was originally meant to provide
7 > links to those articles. However, it frequently occurs that links change
8 > (most notably the IBM ones).
9 >
10 > Because it is a pain to keep these links in shape, I'm proposing to remove
11 > the page from the Gentoo web site alltogether. Interested users can easily
12 > find those articles by searching on the IBM DW web site themselves.
13 >
14 > This idea is also backed up by the fact that not many articles talk about
15 > Gentoo and some of them are outdated (or use an outdated view that has been
16 > superseded by newer methods).
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18 It would still be useful to keep the titles and other info, just
19 removing the link. Otherwise, how are people supposed to even know the
20 articles exist?
21
22 Thanks,
23 Donnie
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>