Preservation of alpha history - Re: [PATCH 1/4] alpha: replace dead links in Kconfig help text

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

Date: Sat Oct 17 2026 - 03:44:49 EST


Hi Matt,

On Fri, 2026-10-16 at 19:54 -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
> Yeah, I feel that. I did everything I could to preserve history and
> sources for the wiki content. I spent months waiting on GitHub support
> to transfer the "alphalinux" organization that the late Peter Petrakis
> set up a decade ago
>
> https://github.com/alphalinux/
>
> It now hosts various repositories, including the wiki content:
>
> https://github.com/alphalinux/alphalinux.org-wiki-content
>
> and all of the Alpha-related mailing list archives I could find:
>
> https://github.com/alphalinux/mailing-list-archives
>
> My intention is that even if I (and alphalinux.org) disappear, the
> wiki content won't.

Wow, I didn't know you put so much efforts and resources into this,
that is true dedication. Thanks a lot for doing this!

Might be an idea to also upload any of these documents to archive.org
to preserve them there as well. They probably have better long-term
archival mechanism compared to Github.

Adrian

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