Re: Removing old news from webpages

Hello

El 18/7/25 a las 11:08, Sean Whitton escribió:
> Hello,
>
> No-one has spoken up in favour of the decision to remove the old news.
> Shall someone just revert the commit removing it?

I support the decision of removing the old news from www.debian.org

The old (and new) news are sent by mail too, so they are available in 
the mailing list archives. Having them in the website has some downsides:

* the website is too big, and building /News consumes energy and time. 
In the last times it's better than before, but I support the goal to 
have a small website that builds quicker and more energy efficient, and 
also is smaller to be moved to a better engine (now wml+perl, very old 
code that works well but it's not welcoming for newcomers).

* it contaminates the search results and consumes time+energy of our 
validation scripts. One idea could be to just leave the static html 
files and don't allow more translations/changes in those pages, but I 
think that would not help with obtaining better search results.

* The historically relevant news (I know that "relevant" is a subjective 
term) should maybe be integrated in debian-history packages or linked 
from there to the corresponding mail in the archives.

* we (web team) are a small team and until now most of your Debian web 
time is devoted to maintenance. Leaving things as it were (revert the 
commits) it seems it's the easier but it leaves us continue living with 
our old monster. Making the website smaller will allow us to make it 
smarter and better organized.

* Maybe we can find a good way to make everybody happy, moving the 
static html files to some other place and setting redirects, but that 
also needs time and effort and personally my focus these weeks is in 
other parts of the website (I'll try to rethink the /international/ 
folder, another monster...).

Kind regards