Pending Release 13.04 End Of Life

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
I think keeping for a month or so is fine but too long gets us a bad
reputation for having out-of-date documentation.
Regards from
Tom :)

On 21 January 2014 21:52, Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:
>
> On 2014.01.21 11:11 Lars Noodén wrote:
>> On 21.01.2014 21:04, Doug Smythies wrote:
>>>  [snip]
>>>
>>> On 2014.01.21 10:46 Lars Noodén wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is the reason for deleting it, if 12.10 and the others are going to
>>>> be kept?
>>>
>>> The others are not at EOL (End Of Life) yet.
>>> They will be deleted when they reach EOL.
>>>
>>> See also: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
>>>
>>> And in the case of 10.04, observe that the
>>> Desktop portion of it has reached EOL and has
>>> been deleted. Only the Serverguide portion
>>> is still there.
>
>> These are the last and only copies of these documents, for anybody.
>
> That is not true. Anybody with a launchpad account can re-create
> any version of help.ubuntu.com any time they desire by making a local
> copy of the launchpad branch and reverting it to whenever (whatever
> version).
>
>> They have value that they show the state of Ubuntu at various stages in
>> time and document progress over time.
>
>>  As far as I know, they are not in
>> the way nor a maintenance burden.
>
> Actually, the work goes quicker when the active portion of the enormous
> branch is smaller.
>
>>  I would propose that these be kept
>> read-only.
>
> If the result is group consensus, then O.K.
>
> Reference:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/ubuntu-docs/help.ubuntu.com
>
> ... Doug
>
>
>
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