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 Tim As for external websites that have been archived?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