Thought on WikiCleanupProposal versioning

[Corey Burger]

On 2/22/06, Ross Bigelow <rbigelow at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about using the kernel/distro versioning scheme?
>
> IE)
>
> /current/   <-- All documents related to the current release.
> /development/ <--All documents being prepared for the next release.
> /Archive/version#     <--All of the older documents organized by
> version name or number.
>
> Once a new release is out, all the /current material is moved to
> /archive, the /development material is copied to /current then the
> process of rewriting the /development begins again. There wouldn't be
> a need to remove the old /development just edit what need to be
> changed.

This has two major issues:
1. Mass moves suck
2. Good URLs never break

Also, from a pratical perspective, a lot of docs are same for all
currently supported versions or simply don't exist for latter versions
of Ubuntu (like keeping your machine up to date).

Corey