Wiki pages that apply to only one release

[Corey Burger]

On 6/6/06, Rocco Stanzione <grasshopper at linuxkungfu.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 June 2006 2:11 am, Corey Burger wrote:
> > There are a fair number of wiki pages that only apply to one release,
> > mostly becuase they deal with a hardware issue that has been solved in
> > a later release. After Warty EOLed, I went around and cleaned up
> > reference to it from our docs. This was an annoying task, because I
> > had to go and find each page. Therefor I would like to propose a
> > process of tagging pages for releases. This does raise a number of
> > issues:
> >
> > 1. Do we tag all pages or only pages that are for a specific release?
>
> It will often be hard to tell if a page applies only to the current release,
> unless it addresses an issue that's already been dealt with.  For example,
> the pages cropping up right now may address Dapper issues that will no longer
> exist in Edgy, but for the most part we can't know that yet.  I think it
> makes sense, then, to tag all pages, or all pages that are Ubuntu-specific.
>
> > 2. Do we use the name or the number of the release (Hoary vs 5.04) in
> > the category name
>
> On IRC, in the forums, and on the wiki, I've noticed that users seem to refer
> to releases by name far more often than version number.  I do the same
> myself.  I also remember the name Warty but not its version number.  Unless
> this observation is way off, let's go with release names - it also avoids
> dealing with dots in the category name.
>
> > 3. Do we all agree that removing docs for non-security supported
> > releases is a good thing?
>
> I usually find that moving things out of the way proves to be a better idea
> than deleting them, unless the problem I'm solving is a disk space issue.
> There can still be valuable information in documents whose purpose is to
> solve an issue that no longer exists: the discussion of the issue can help me
> learn something important about whatever had the problem.  Search engines can
> take a long time to remove links to the deleted pages.  Is it possible to
> create an "Archived" supercategory and keep it accessible without having it
> in the way?
>
> > 4. Any other issues I forgot about?
>
> Off the top of my head, no.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rocco Stanzione

Thanks for all the feedback. Looks the initial feedback is good. To be
absolutely clear, this policy would not apply to those pages which
talk about Hoary and have simply not been updated yet. This is about
pages which help users fix bugs in old releases, bugs that have been
fixed in later ones. Also, no page will be removed until the release
it talks about goes End of Life, so no worries about us pulling Breezy
docs until this time next year.

I will begin tagging stuff as HoaryOnly over the next few weeks. I
encourage everybody to do the same.

Cheers,

Corey