Re: Removing old news from webpages (was: Peter Miller memorial page)

On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 03:30:57PM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote:
> For reference, the rationale given for the removal of the old news pages
> is stated in a comment to the corresponding commit, cf.
> <https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/-/commit/e92471ba4917f0ec62d22e04229928e5531698f4#note_556263>:
> | The old issues of DWN are still available in their original location on
> | the Debian mailing lists. www.debian.org/News contains two links to the
> | mailing list archive. But on the web page, we want to show only the
> | relevant news to our users, which are the recent ones from the last
> | years, but not the very old ones.
> 
> HTH,
> Flo - who also thinks that removing the old content is wrong but also
> thinks that it is up to debian-www to make a call on that, and who now
> just wanted to clarify the references from commit to thread and vice versa

In that case, it seems like a possible compromise might be to keep the
old files in place to avoid breaking links from elsewhere, but no longer
list them from the index?