Re: [Jython-dev] Website - Archived versions

[Jeff A. <ja...@fa...>]

Simplest seems to be to check them in where they are expected. If we 
don't want to carry the old material, it must surely be because we don't 
think it valuable enough to keep accessible, but if we do I don't see 
how it is better to have it accessible, just in a surprising place.

Browsing it, I think it would be a shame to lose some of it entirely. 
I'm a terrible hoarder, though.

There's some project history here, and I've sometimes found it helpful 
to know what people were thinking concurrent with some otherwise 
puzzling change, or see how it was before. I'd say the information 
should (eventually) be in a different form, none of it giving the 
appearance of being our home page. But the news roll at the bottom of an 
old home page is just our old (archived) news, isn't it?

I think a sidebar etc. is part of the furniture that makes a page look 
like a home page, so is a thing I'd remove sooner than fix.

Jeff Allen

On 09/01/2019 18:39, James Mudd wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Just something else to update once we move jython.org 
> <http://jython.org> to the new website. Currently I have make a page 
> to get to the archived sites (Documentation -> Archived Sites) this 
> contains links to the various old versions of the Jython website. 
> However currently these links point as jython.org <http://jython.org> 
> which works now because the old sites are there, but once the domain 
> is moved that wont be the case.
>
> I have a proposed solution to this 
> https://github.com/jython/jython.github.io/pull/4 which changes the 
> links to point to a copy of the old versions which i have in my github 
> account (can be viewed at 
> https://jamesmudd.github.io/jython-old-sites/). So merging this PR 
> would fix the broken links once the domain is transferred. However I 
> don't really think Jython should be relying on my personal Github 
> account in the longer term so I would like to transfer the repository 
> https://github.com/jamesmudd/jython-old-sites to the jython 
> organisation. @JimBaker when I try this at the moment I get the error 
> message "You don’t have the permission to create repositories on 
> jython" could I have this permission? The idea would be to transfer 
> the repository then archive it to make it read only.
>
> A small issue i have noticed is at 
> https://jamesmudd.github.io/jython-old-sites/ the right had side bar 
> doesn't seem to work properly I haven't looked into this but maybe it 
> could be fixed, do people consider this an important feature worth 
> fixing on archived sites?
>
> James
>