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

[ron minnich]

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 at 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:
>
> 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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