On 24 October 2011 13:22, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> A few weeks ago Micheal Martin posted bug 544 [1] on the tracker. The
>> bug report has sparked an interest in preserving the tutorials and
>> documentation that exists on the KDE servers for KDE 3.5. Much of this
>> information could be potentially useful to new developers, and it will
>> give us insight into previous development and practices.
>>
>> I have started transferring pages from the KDE techbase, but there are
>> also many external links and other misc pages floating around the
>> Internet. Many of these links are broken, but can be found on the
>> Wayback Machine [2]. There are entire websites that have been saved on
>> the Wayback Machine as well.
>>
>> The purpose of this email is to figure out what to do, and recruit any
>> interestoied parties to help out.
>>
>> Should we just link to the archived pages? Should we copy them to our
>> own web server?
>>
>> I am just getting started and this will be an ongoing project. So far
>> I have just created one page on the Wiki, the Developers Tutorial [3].
>> It is to be the central hub for development pages.
>>
>> Any r / Comments would be appreciated.
>>
>> Calvin Morrison
>>
>> [1] http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544
>> [2] http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
>> [3]
>> http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/DeveloperTutorial
>
> Copying the pages to our servers (the Wiki to be precise) is by far the
> best way to go.  That would allow us to easily edit parts of the TechBase
> that are obsolete or incomplete.
>
> Tim


As for external websites that have been archived? I think it would be
prudent to copy those onto the website as well.

Calvin