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Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:59:58 -0400
From: Alec Warner <warnera6@egr.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of articles.xml from website
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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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> Sven Vermeulen wrote:
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>>Many Gentoo developers have written articles about Linux and Gentoo on
>>third-party sites. The articles page [1] was originally meant to provide
>>links to those articles. However, it frequently occurs that links change
>>(most notably the IBM ones).
>>
>>Because it is a pain to keep these links in shape, I'm proposing to remove
>>the page from the Gentoo web site alltogether. Interested users can easily
>>find those articles by searching on the IBM DW web site themselves.
>>
>>This idea is also backed up by the fact that not many articles talk about
>>Gentoo and some of them are outdated (or use an outdated view that has been
>>superseded by newer methods).
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> 
> It would still be useful to keep the titles and other info, just
> removing the link. Otherwise, how are people supposed to even know the
> articles exist?
> 
> Thanks,
> Donnie
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	I have to agree here, something should be left behind.  Many of the 
articles that are linked to have helped me out in the past, and leaving 
some sort of link or "hey go search for these @IBM" would be useful IMHO.
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