archive.md: Update About Rev News link

[PhilipOakley]

The current About Rev News link results in a 404.
Link direct to the git.github.io page.

Fixes one point in #545

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley [email protected]

[mjaix]

Thanks a lot for finding just another relative link!

[PhilipOakley]

Thanks. I forgot to point out that the error I saw was when I navigated, on GitHub, within the repo to the archive.md file (i.e. here https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/archive.md).

As it is a markdown file, GitHub renders it and showed the hyperlink. It was clicking on that hyperlink that failed, rather than me checking the gh pages at https://git.github.io/

In retrospect I'm not so sure that my change is the right one as I changed from (apparently) a relative link, to an absolute link. It maybe a relative link could still be used, but with some 'corrected' path. Also there are two "About" pages in the https://git.github.io/ pages, one of which is https://git.github.io/rev_news/rev_news/

I suspect most of the #545 comments are about that confusion between starting at the 'gh pages' vs starting at the repo' markdown.md pages.

[sivaraam]

Also there are two "About" pages in the https://git.github.io/ pages, one of which is https://git.github.io/rev_news/rev_news/

Precisely, I believe linking to https://git.github.io/rev_news/rev_news/ would be more appropriate as the link promises to give information about subscribing which https://git.github.io/about does not provide directly. The "About Git Developer Pages" does have a link to the "About Git Rev News" page but that's likely a roundabout way to get the information about subscribing to the newsletter.

It maybe a relative link could still be used, but with some 'corrected' path.

I couldn't immediately think of a some 'corrected' path that would work in both GitHub's Markdown rendering and the rendered site. But I suppose, we don't expect too many people to read the pages of the site via GitHub. So, it might be much of a problem having links that don't work on GitHub. OTOH, we do seem to use absolute links a lot (in rev news posts, about page). So, it might be fine to have absolute links too.

I suppose if there's one change to do now, it would be to change the absolute link in archive.md from https://git.github.io/about/ to https://git.github.io/rev_news/rev_news/ 🙂