Re: outdated material on apache web-site (Apache Users)

On Dec 22, 2007 2:27 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin <danm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I came across this http://httpd.apache.org/related_projects.html:

> This info is seriously outdated, as neither stronghold nor raven are
> available anymore, and the RSA patent is at this point long expired.
> (This page also makes no mention of mod_ssl).

You'll notice that this page isn't linked from anywhere.

I have to respectfully disagree here. The original poster came across them somehow, so it's linked from somewhere.

You run a certain risk when you do random google searches and expect
the result to be authoritative. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have a
"This page is obsolete" message at the top, but it shouldn't be
causing problems in any case.

Joshua.

It isn't unreasonable to expect that a document from a http.apache.org address to be authoritative. It is one thing to look at a search result from some random blog, but this is apache.org, a domain that should be most authoritative about apache.

Documentation should be as accurate and clean as any code. If there is an obscure bug that only affects a very small percentage of people, it is reasonable to expect that the code be fixed to maintain a certain level of quality for the project overall. Just because it "shouldn't cause any problems" doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed. The page should be fixed or deleted.

--Victor