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

Darrick J. Wong
2024-10-08T16:13:31Z

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
>