RFC: future directions of the documentation after the XML migration

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:

> it seems the migration went more or less fine, the known problems have
> been fixed. However, this is just the first step of the cleanup and
> modernization of the doc infrastructure. The next thing I would like to
> accomplish is renaming the files to .xml. For this, it would also be
> practical to first clean up the very obsoleted pieces of docs that we
> have. It is long overdue anyway and it would reduce the number of files
> to rename. Besides, these contain outdated info, which is misleading for
> users and just increase the build time. A similar list has been already
> proposed by linimon@ but somehow we didn't go on to actually clean it
> up. So I'd like to remove the following and all of their translations:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/checkpoint/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/dialup-firewall/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/euro/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/storage-devices/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/version-guide/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hats/
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/
> http://www.freebsd.org/java/dists/
> http://www.freebsd.org/kse/
> http://www.freebsd.org/smp/
> http://www.freebsd.org/y2kbug.html
>
> Some of these are totally obsolete because of the topic, others could be
> updated but they are that outdated that it would be easier to create
> something from scratch. Please take it into account when raising an
> objection.

Will archived versions remain readable online?  PDFs are static and 
require no maintenance.