Proposal: Remove essentially all the questions/answers from the 2.0 FAQ. Leave only perhaps half a dozen of the most general questions. Add a reference at the top of the FAQ telling people to look in the 1.3 FAQ for questions that are not answered in the 2.0 FAQ.
This seems reasonable, but raises the likelihood that the 1.3 FAQ will be used purely for 2.0 by some (eventually, most?) people.
Can we add something to the (1.3) FAQ identifying status of individual issues in 2.0? Ideally, I'd like to have [1.3 only] or [fixed in 2.0] in the TOC and inline titles, to make scanning through it easier for 2.0 users, but this probably shouldn't appear until 2.0 is released (at least at 'beta'/external level). This might also make it easier to build a new 2.0 FAQ, or might become irrelevant if the rest of the 2.0 docs are much better.
Chris
- The 1.3 FAQ is borderline unmanageable, both from a maintainer and a user perspective. It just has too much stuff in it. It will be almost impossible to highlight important 2.0 FAQs because of all the garbage left over from 1.3.
- A large number of questions in the 1.3 FAQ will be obsolete in 2.0 either because a) The features have changed in 2.0 b) The issues no longer exist (eg. broken libraries, etc) c) The issue has been documented elsewhere.
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