Wiki pages that apply to only one release

[Corey Burger]

On 6/6/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> On Jun 6, 2006, at 4:35 AM, Matthew East wrote:
> > ...
> > 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.
>
> I bet it was annoying for those whose hardware doesn't support anything
> later than Warty, too.
>
> >> Therefor I would like to propose a process of tagging pages for
> >> releases.
>
> Excellent idea. We last had this discussion back in February.
> <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2006-February/
> 005029.html> My suggestion is the same now as it was then:
>
>       == Applies to: ==
>        * Ubuntu 5.04
>       == Does not apply to: ==
>        * Ubuntu 5.10 and later
>
> > ...
> >> 2. Do we use the name or the number of the release (Hoary vs 5.04) in
> >> the category name
> >
> > In order to avoid the decimal point... I think we should go with
> > CategoryHoaryOnly
>
> That naming system wouldn't work for a document that applies to (for
> example) 4.10 and 5.04 but not 5.10.
>
> >> 3. Do we all agree that removing docs for non-security supported
> >> releases is a good thing?
> >
> > Yes.
> > ...
>
> Absolutely not. Provided that the pages are appropriately labelled,
> there's no reason to remove information that's useful to people who
> (for whatever reason) can't upgrade their OS. Support.microsoft.com
> still includes knowledge base articles for Windows 3.1, and
> info.apple.com still includes knowledge base articles for System 7.

Warty is not supported anymore and users should not be using it. If
someone came to Apple or MS and asked them to support 7 or 3.1, they
would. We are not MS or Apple and don't have resources to deal with
rotting wiki pages. Our shipped documentation is available and will
always be available.

Cheers,

corey