Rahul Sundaram wrote:
We are doing what we can at
tldp.org to
review these documents and contact these authors to
get the document updated or pushed out into the
unmaintained tree.
Some of the HOWTOs are absurdly out-of-date,
while others are extremely good.
Wouldn't it be possible to introduce a rule
that if a HOWTO has not been modified for say a year
(and the modification need only consist of a change in the date)
then it is removed from the archive,
or as you say put in an "obsolete" directory?
I'd suggest too that every HOWTO should have a date in the heading,
and an email address for the author.
Most do have this, but some don't.
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