Sunsetting ext4.wiki.kernel.org (unmaintained)

Sunsetting ext4.wiki.kernel.org (unmaintained)

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

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.

-K

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

[Darrick J. Wong]

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
> 

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

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

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