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

Konstantin Ryabitsev
2024-10-08T19:40:53Z

On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 09:13:30AM GMT, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > 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. :)

Great, this is now done.

Best regards,
-K