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

[Felipe Sanches]

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 at 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 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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>>
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