linux-ext4 - Re: Sunsetting ext4.wiki.kernel.org (unmaintained)

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Message-ID: <20241008161330.GA21832@frogsfrogsfrogs>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 09:13:30 -0700
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sunsetting ext4.wiki.kernel.org (unmaintained)

On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 10:34:43AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> Hello, all:
> 
> The ext4 wiki appears to be mostly unmaintained and contains pretty obsolete
> data going back decades. I suggest we do the following:
> 
> - Archive the current contents as a static site on archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/
> - Add an admonition on every page that:
> 
>   - the viewer is looking at obsolete contents
>   - all up-to-date information is on https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/ext4/
> 
> I.e. this is exactly we did for the unmaintained git wiki a while back.
> 
>     https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/git.wiki.kernel.org/
> 
> Please follow up if you have any objections, otherwise I will go ahead with
> the plan.

I lost my account on the ext4 wiki when the login system got changed
and never figured out how to get it back, so I migrated the one piece I
cared about (the ondisk format docs) to the kernel and disowned the
whole thing.  So I'm perfectly happy to have it archived before it gets
taken over by adverse bots. :)

--D

> -K
>