Small request for open source maintainers: don't just delete docs for things you no longer support.
Save the HTML, put it in a zip, and throw it into some archive page on your site. I feel like it takes just a few minutes and significantly helps those who have to upgrade things from the early 2000s. Even one documentation snapshot per major version is good enough, I'd say.
@afilina I went and used w3m to mirror the pages of the old ZF website to make it static years ago, knowing that folks still use it for ZF1 and pre-2.6 docs. Takes next to nothing to serve them, and it ensures folks still using them can get at the documentation they need.
Repos are fine for docs, but they're not as easily searched or read, I feel.
@mwop Honestly, I'd settle for as little as a zip so I can search the files myself. As a legacy archaeologist, I don't need much. Repos are better, a static site even more so, if people can spare the time.
What bugs me is when docs are removed completely with no alternative, as though nobody will ever need them again. I sometimes have to hunt for docs on the internet archive, with my fingers crossed.
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