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Success stories patch
Here is a patch for the Success Stories. Just cleaned up some
mispellings, obvious mistypings, and some minor grammar corrections.

I also make sure to add URL: headings for stories that contained URLs
in the body, but didn't list them at the top. I'm assuming that only
the URLs after a URL: tag get HREFs, if that isn't the case let me
know what the regex looks for and I'll clean up the URLs in the
bodies.

I'm not sure about this story:

http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/openscape.org.html

The site isn't up anymore (domain squatter has it) and it references
the site to the point the story almost doesn't make sense. I'm
leaning toward removing it, but I wanted to see what everyone else
thought.

I'll go through the sites page over the weekend.

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Frank Wiles <frank@wiles.org>
http://www.wiles.org
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Re: Success stories patch [ In reply to ]
[pinging back the advocacy list]

Frank Wiles wrote:
> Here is a patch for the Success Stories. Just cleaned up some
> mispellings, obvious mistypings, and some minor grammar corrections.

Thanks Frank, committed.

> I also make sure to add URL: headings for stories that contained URLs
> in the body, but didn't list them at the top. I'm assuming that only
> the URLs after a URL: tag get HREFs, if that isn't the case let me
> know what the regex looks for and I'll clean up the URLs in the
> bodies.

No, no need for URL: prefix. All urls m#(http|ftp|etc)://# are
automatically converted into links. But it's good to have the main URL in
the headers as your patch did.

> I'm not sure about this story:
>
> http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/openscape.org.html
>
> The site isn't up anymore (domain squatter has it) and it references
> the site to the point the story almost doesn't make sense. I'm
> leaning toward removing it, but I wanted to see what everyone else
> thought.
>
> I'll go through the sites page over the weekend.

As we seemed to agree at the advocacy list, we shouldn't not delete sites
that are no longer there. Just indicate that the site used to be
"openscape.org" but is no longer with us. remove the http:// part, justing
leaving the domain name, so it won't get linked.

I thought we could outsmart the death, by doing:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://openscape.org/
but alas the domain squatter set the robots rule, so we can't even know
whether there were some pages stored in the internet archives.

But we should definitely use http://archive.org/ in the future for those
sites that have ceased to exist, instead of removing the link.

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