Re: [PATCH 2/5] MAINTAINERS: remove linux-mips.org references

[Lukas Bulwahn]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:48 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 5:22 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The domain lookup for linux-mips.org fails for quite some time now. Hence,
> > webpages, the patchwork instance and Ralf Baechle's email there is not
> > reachable anymore.
> >
> > Remove all references of webpages from linux-mips.org in MAINTAINERS, and
> > refer to the kernel.org's linux-mips patchwork instance instead.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS | 5 +----
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index e949e561867d..703a50183301 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -4980,7 +4980,6 @@ DECSTATION PLATFORM SUPPORT
> >  M:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >  L:     linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >  S:     Maintained
> > -W:     http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/DECstation
>
> Why not use the web archive? The information is still valuable.
> https://web.archive.org/web/20190704000315/https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/DECstation
>

If that information is valuable, how about adding that into the kernel
documentation page?

If linux-mips.org wiki is back, we will keep this link; if not, we
should get a copy of that information into the documentation (where it
can survive some time) or we simply drop it.

Putting a web.archive.org link into MAINTAINERS sounds like a really
bad idea to me.

Lukas