[coreboot] Why I don't like links in commit messages and comments ...

[Felipe Sanches]

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:

https://archive.org/web/

2017-08-14 21:44 GMT-03:00 ron minnich <rminnich at 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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