Description of task
The FreeBSD Project maintains a link on its webpage to external sites where commercial vendors offer services around FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/commercial/commercial.html Some of these sites might not be available anymore, have moved or may contain new information no longer related to FreeBSD. In order to keep that web page up to date, the objective of this task is to go through all the links and check whether the vendors still exist and still offer the services they advertise as described.
This task requires you to check all links within the "Internet Service Providers" section.
Please obtain a copy of the page source (see the "Task requires" section below). For each link, verify whether the link is still valid. If you find that a homepage has moved to a new location, update the broken links accordingly. If the information the link pointed to does not exist anymore (i.e. vendor is out of business) and an alternative site can not be found, if it has been replaced by a new site (like a page for linkfarming), or if the company no longer appears to offer the services mentioned, make a list of these and discuss with your mentor whether just the link or the whole vendor information should be removed.
Task requirements
Please read http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/GoogleCodeIn/GettingStarted before accepting this task, as it contains further details on what this task consists of, as well as providing useful information on how to obtain the page source and how to proceed with the task.
| File name/URL | File size | Date submitted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| isp.xml | 45.4 KB | December 17 2011 20:10 UTC | |
| changes12172011.txt | 707 bytes | December 17 2011 20:10 UTC | |
| isp.xml | 39.6 KB | December 18 2011 23:42 UTC | |
| changes12182011.txt | 1.4 KB | December 18 2011 23:42 UTC | |
| changes12182011.txt | 1.4 KB | December 18 2011 23:43 UTC |
I would like to work on this task.
Hi,
Responding to your questions on IRC)
The source code for this page is in an XML document within the "www" FreeBSD repository. A copy can be downloaded from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/www/share/sgml/commercial.isp.xml?rev=1.70;content-type=text%2Fplain although it may well be best to download and use the FreeBSD virtual machine image provided, as that already has the required files checked out and available.
Thanks,
Gavin
This task has been assigned to Violet Lin. You have 72 hours to complete this task, good luck!
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This work looks excellent! Thank you for your work, and your attention to detail.