Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Remove dead linux-mips.org references
From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Jun 27 2021 - 17:12:29 EST
On Fri, 2021-06-25 at 17:49 +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> [Adding Ralf and Kurt to the list of recipients.]
>
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Lukas Bulwahn 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.
>
> Well, mail forwarding has now been set up for my old LMO address, and so
> I believe for Ralf's. Any other resources remain unavailable.
>
> > In the discussion of that patch series, Kurt Martin promised to get
> > linux-mips.org back online. Four months have now passed and the webpage is
> > still not back online. So, I suggest to remove these dead references.
> > Probably, we do not lose much if the linux-mips.org webpage never comes back.
>
> While most resources have been migrated I think the wiki was unique and
> valuable. Perhaps we could preserve read-only references to archive.org
> dumps? It's not clear to me what our policy is here though, if any.
Perhaps better to wholesale copy the content and keep it
around somewhere else like lore.kernel.org.