Retired old INN Subversion and Trac sites

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, 2024-01-01 at 08:12 +0100, Harald Welte wrote:

> I was wondering if you were aware of archiveteam.org and whether there
> was any contact prior to the shututdown so they can make sure to preserve
> a historical archive.  See https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Trac
> and https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot - who I believe

As far as I can tell, Russ hasn't contacted ArchiveTeam about archiving
any of the INN stuff and while some parts of Russ' website have been
saved by ArchiveTeam, the INN subdomain was not yet saved.

https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=eyrie.org

We would of course be happy to save any INN web resources to
archive.org, please let us know when they are back online.

For the Subversion repository, I recommend submitting it to Software
Heritage and saving it to an ArchiveTeam archive.org Codearchiver item.

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Codearchiver

> People with an interest in software archaeology today or in the future
> might appreciate if the original data (tracdb) or at least an archive of
> the web interface to it could be preserved fro history.  Undoubtedly INN
> had huge significance in the development of UseNet and the Internet, and
> it might be more relevant to preserve its history than the history of
> many other FOSS projects.

For the tracdb, I suggest uploading it as an archive.org item.
The ia tool in the internetarchive Debian package can help automate
that, once you have signed up for an archive.org account.

For the web interface, ArchiveBot mentioned above is the best option.

-- 
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