Bug#905440: www.debian.org: remove "last modified" from footer
Steve McIntyre <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.www |
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| Message-ID | <20180821235012.tja2ctwydzx7t6fg__39598.1421963826$1534895547$gmane$org@tack.einval.com> |
On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 06:40:23AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 07:32:17PM +0200, Laura Arjona Reina wrote:
>>>
>>>The last commit on index.wml was in 2014, which only changed http to
>>>https, so no real content change. In fact, the content didn't changed
>>>since 2012 and may be out of date.
>>
>>The content is current.
>>
>>>Please just remove this useless information from every page.
>>
>>The date shown is the date of last build. This can be the date when
>>something changed in the page (content or layout), in the templates
>>used to build that page (e.g. a change in the footer), or a force
>>rebuild for any reason.
>>
>>We probably change the string from "Last modified" to something else
>>("Last build" or other wording), but I don't think that it is useless
>>and we should remove it (I'm open to listen to other opinions,
>>though).
>
>Definitely it should stay - a major part of the usefulness of many
>pages is "can I trust this to be up to date?". If desired, I'm happy
>to prod the wml tooling to give us more useful data ("page content
>last modified XXXX, page built YYYY")...?
See https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/merge_requests/21
for a first attempt...