From f2aa5e03e6e9ff4713d01a68d9958a4d4d3503c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cody Boone Ferguson <53008573+xexyl@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2023 04:54:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Further updates to todo.md --- todo.md | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md index 7195fa942..b7b4e48c2 100644 --- a/todo.md +++ b/todo.md @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ # A todo list of known things to check and/or do -*Last updated: Thu 6 Jul 2023 11:24:42 UTC* +*Last updated: Thu 6 Jul 2023 11:54:19 UTC* + +This document is primarily for [Cody Boone +Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) as he (that is I :-) ) wanted a way +to keep track of things in a way that did not require the information getting +lost in the thousands of changes in the repo and because it might be too much to +add to the todo list in the issues themselves. More things will likely be added over time and as items are done they _should be_ removed from the list IF AND ONLY IF (!!) we are _absolutely certain_ it is @@ -108,3 +114,24 @@ run) or else they'll have to be put above the compilation. - Check the [GitHub issue #3 comment 1615962832](https://github.com/ioccc-src/temp-test-ioccc/issues/3#issuecomment-1615962832) for links about the todo items wrt the [FAQ](/faq.md). + +- Check for dead links of all kinds: not only author URLs but file URLs on the +website. I (Cody) would be seriously surprised if I did not make a typo +somewhere (or some places!) in the many thousands of changes I made in the +README.md files, the [bugs.md](/bugs.md) files and maybe even the +[thanks-for-fixes.md](/thanks-for-fixes.md) file plus others that might be +there. + * In the case of author URLs sometimes the Internet Wayback Machine is + helpful (and has helped) but in other cases it has not. Note that sometimes + the Internet Wayback Machine helped find more recent URLs so this should be + attempted first before adding the last archive link. + * Remember to update the author JSON files if it's an author URL! + * For URLs that cannot be located at all remove them entirely but add them + to [bugs.md](/bugs.md) as a missing link to the respective entry. See that file for the + correct status to add. Remember that each type of issue per entry in the + [bugs.md](/bugs.md) file should have its own status. + * If it's a link in the repo then there's no need (in almost all cases if + not all cases) to have the Internet Wayback Machine: instead just update the + link to point to the right location. + * Do we need to update the links that point to GitHub raw content? I'm not + sure.