Suggestion

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi,

sorry, just realised that I had not started my IRC app. I'm now on
#lubuntu-docs if anyone wants to further bounce some ideas around. (I am on
light duties and supposed to be chill-axing :P ). I've got a planned
meeting with our new lubuntu wiki / doc TL this weekend, but am trying to
go light on my workload. Discussions such as these are important, as I do
hope he does 'stay the course' and become a fully fledged wiki-editor.

Regards,

Phill.


On 13 September 2013 21:20, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com>wrote:

> the way things are now you have to work with trial by error with the
> current state of the docs. At least like this me as an end user can file a
> bug against the docs team for a particular page if they notice hey this
> version doesnt work with the current release can you update it please.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Hi :)
>> Yes, everyone sees tags.
>>
>> I think both ideas have merit.  I kinda wish the tag said
>> *Unsupported Version:* This article appears to apply to unsupported
>> versions of Ubuntu.
>> or something else less definite that the way it is set at the moment.
>>
>> If something definitely only applies to unsupported versions then it
>> should definitely be removed but i think there are a lot of pages where
>> it's unclear or where just a bit of updating or pruning large chunks out
>> might fix the page.  However, even so, i think it would be good to use the
>> tag as it is to see if it helps shake things up a bit.
>>
>> I also quite like Jonathon's idea of listing some of the versions the
>> page is known to work with.  I think there are dangers with it but even so
>> it's worth considering imo.
>>
>> Regards from
>> Tom :)
>>
>>
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>>  *From:* Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com>
>> *To:* Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com>
>> *Cc:* Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>; Ubuntu Doc <
>> ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> *Sent:* Friday, 13 September 2013, 21:05
>> *Subject:* Re: Suggestion
>>
>> will tags show up to those that visit the page? like me a reader and user
>> of the wiki would it show the tags?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com>wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> having just had a new tag [1] added maybe we can use these?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>> 1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tag
>>
>>
>> On 13 September 2013 20:06, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> maybe so but it will give users a heads up hey maybe the doc team should
>> be informed this page doesnt support the release that i am on
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>>
>> Hi :)
>> I think we need to be wary of that sort of thing.  It can make a page
>> appear outdated even if it's contents are still valid and just means people
>> have to take care to edit every single page even if it's only for that 1
>> thing.
>>
>> It has always been my worry that it's the only reason some of our current
>> pages have a bad reputation for being old.  The advice might still be solid
>> but the version numbers are so out of date that the page is in danger of
>> getting deleted and the wisdom or cunning lost.  Since the move to Unity
>> that has been a lot less of an issue and i am beginning to agree it would
>> be good to just wipe out a large number of pages, or at least stop them
>> from being publicly accessible, but probably just deleting would be best.
>>
>> Regards from
>> Tom :)
>>
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>>  *From:* Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com>
>> *To:* Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> *Sent:* Friday, 13 September 2013, 19:12
>> *Subject:* Suggestion
>>
>> Is it possible to put on the page a list of versions that the steps to
>> setup something applies to that way if and when somethign changes then we
>> know that hey these documents need to be updated to include said stuff for
>> this particular version.
>>
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