Wiki pages that apply to only one release

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 19:29:13 -0700
"Corey Burger" <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:

[snips]

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> > 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.

I think this misses the point. Whether Warty is supported or not, there
are many people still running it, for whatever reason. While I agree
that ideally they would not be, simply pulling the rug out from under
them by removing information seems not to be really in the spirit of
ubuntu.

Archive the old information by all means, and point to it. Why make it
hard to find? That just alienates people.

Hint: not everyone has access to the latest Ubuntu, despite shipit and
other great ideas and efforts. Would we not prefer them to be running
Warty than say, oh, a copy of W98 they got from an uncle in the
neighbouring village ?

Peter

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