RFC: even more staleness on the web site

[Diane Bruce]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 03:35:19AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
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> I'm very encouraged to see that folks are looking for staleness on the
> FreeBSD.org website.
> 
> Some of the attention recently has been focused on stale URLs.  I'l like
> to pop up one level and suggest that there are certain areas of the website
> that have altogether outlived their usefulness, regardless of the state of
> the URLs they contain.
> 
> My ill-thought-out suggestion would be to somehow create a "historical
> interest" section (subdirectory?) and to populate it with the following.
> I'm, of couse, willing to entertain any suggestions, but these are the 
> ones that in the past have made me go "ew."

We've talked about this on #bsddocs
I agree.


> 
> almost certainly need to move:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/checkpoint/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/dialup-firewall/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/euro/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/
>   (nb: anything referencing "dedicated mode" *must immediately die*)
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/storage-devices/ 
>   (nb: contains "what is SCSI".  yeah baby.)
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/version-guide/
>   (nb: abandoned for years.  mea culpa.  *must* be deleted.  a
>    followon on the wiki would be welcomed.)
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/
>   (nb: ohforf)
> http://www.freebsd.org/kse/
> http://www.freebsd.org/smp/
>   (as previously noted on IRC.  but don't fix it, kill it.  too stale to live.)

This PR mostly fixes smp 168803 but I like the idea of removing it
totally.

> http://www.freebsd.org/y2kbug.html
>   (I shouldn't have to say this)


Ouch!

I've been looking for dead links.
http://www.db.net/~db/log_404_uniq_june_6_2012.txt

http://www.db.net/~db/report and http://www.db.net/~db/report.awk
You will need www/linkchecker

- Diane
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