Proposal: additional link "current" on the main page - (especially for the server guide)

[Guntbert Reiter]

So the necessary URLs exist - great :-), my suggestion was to actually
put the appropriate *links* on the start page.

And as for Peter's comment: of course nobody can/should be "forced" - it
is mainly a service for other sites :-)

regards, guntbert

On 10.01.2014 20:36, Doug Smythies wrote:
> We already do exactly what you are asking, for exactly the reasons you
> mentioned. There was some bug report on this a few years ago, and Jeremy
> Bicha (I think it was) implemented the fix.
>
> There is already "lts", as Peter mentioned.
> There is also "stable".
>
> And they apply to both desktop and serverguide. (which a pending issue for
> 14.10 when there will not be a serverguide. I.E. "stable for serverguide
> will need to point to 14.04 and "stable" for desktop will need to point to
> 14.10.)
>
> Examples:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/index.html
> https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/ubuntu-help/index.html
> https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/serverguide/index.html
> https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/index.html
>
> ... Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Peter Matulis
> Sent: January-10-2014 11:17
> To: Guntbert Reiter; ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Proposal: additional link "current" on the main page -
> (especially for the server guide)
>
> On 01/10/2014 02:03 PM, Guntbert Reiter wrote:
>> Just now I stumbled over a problem for all sites that provide links to
>> help.ubuntu.com (like AskUbuntu does in answers):
>>
>> As there is no link to a "current" version every link is subject to link
>> rot unless the posts are edited regularly. So I propose to add two links
>> to http://help.ubuntu.com
>>
>>       A. Ubuntu Current pointing to 13.10 at the moment
>>       B. Ubuntu LTS Current  -> 12.04 LTS at the moment
>>
>> As pages (especially in the server guide) don't vanish on a regular
>> basis that could help to keep answers with links to help.ubuntu.com
>> usable for a longer time.
> I'm not sure we want to do that.  A site might be referring to a
> particular version of a guide that may not be relevant or the correct
> thing to do in a more recent guide.
>
> But for the Server Guide, 'lts' can be employed:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/package-management-introduction.html
>
> Since the Server Guide is going 'LTS-only' this is enough.  Still, it's
> impossible to force people/sites to use such a placeholder and since
> multiple LTS guides will exist at any one time we need to keep
> individual version numbers.  Dunno about the Desktop stuff.
>
> - Peter
>

Guntbert Reiter

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