Other that, the other solution I can think of would involve the creation a coreboot-webreferences git repo (or wiki page, or something else) where people have to make mandatory backup copies of any web-content they reference on commit-messages and any other documentation. That solution is certainly a bit harder to maintain, but much more robust if your goal is to make sure the info will not be lost. There's a catch with copyright law in that case, though... but there could arguably be a defense based on historical preservation purposes similar to the Archive.org project.
2017-08-15 0:51 GMT-03:00 Felipe Sanches juca@members.fsf.org:
It is not perfect, off course! But it is their stated mission to do the best for the longevity of the preserved data and they seem serious enough about that goal. And it is definitely better than the current state of not backing up web-references anywhere.
2017-08-15 0:40 GMT-03:00 ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com:
Why are you assuming that the internet archive will be here in 20 years :-)
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 8:32 PM Felipe Sanches juca@members.fsf.org wrote:
There's a rather simple solution to that: stipulate that any link in commit messages must be first saved on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. That is as easy as pasting the original URL into a text field in this page and clicking the "Save Page Now" button:
2017-08-14 21:44 GMT-03:00 ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com:
This is an interesting headline:
"I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked"
What's interesting? That's only 5 years before linuxbios started. I can make the totally unwarranted claim that the half life of a link is around 12 years. I justify this claim with one bogus data point, namely, this headline :-)
But still, what's amazing is when I did a check, about 15 years after linuxbios began, about 25% of the links were in fact dead. So the 12 year number may not be great, but ... maybe it's not that bad either.
And now you know why I don't like links in commit messages :-)
ron
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