I hope I asked this question sometime back and no one answered. Anyway,
here we go.
Deepal Jayasinghe wrote:
Hi all;
In the xdoc folder contains document for already released versions (0.93
, 0.94) and current version. And I dont think we need to keep multiple
doc folders inside xdocs for each versions, since we are not going to
change them once we do a release.
How can you say that ? From my experience, even after releases we do
change the documents and generate the site. Chatra know about this
better than me.
And you can not freeze the site after a release, and there is no
connection between them.
In the meantime if we want to change
what we should do is take docs for SVN tag corresponding to that and
change that and commit those changes to WS-site.
This is very simple to say. But people who actually do changes knows how
difficult this is.
Think about following scenario.
If I want to change a document in 0.94. I need to checkout only that and
change it. And the questions are as follows
1. which version I should checkout, as there are continuing changes to
the documents even after a release, which we MUST agree.
2. How can I re-build the site ? For me to rebuild the site, I must have
all the docs around.
Do not put this argument away saying how frequent you change docs in
past releases. Chatra and her commitse are proofs for that.
Think about this scenario as well.
Now I want to change a particular document, or may be change the
navigation pane and re-build the site. Do you want me to checkout all
the document versions and then re-build the site, as site contains old
docs ? D you think someone will do it ?
And maintaining multiple docs folders is not going to be good idea when
we have much more versions. And other thing is it take my disk space
unnecessarily :)
ok, how much of diskspace you are talking about here ? Be realistic. How
come you become so conservative about your disk space all of a sudden
:-) .
If some new Axis2 user trying to get fresh SVN update then does that
guy need to have document for older version ? , I think he does not need
and he only need docs for the current code base.
Hmm, how frequent is this scenario. Do you think the frequency of
someone getting a clean checkout is higher than Chatra or anyone
updating the docs. I don't think so. How many times you took fresh
updates, during last 3 months, and how many commits have gone to 0.94
docs ?
So shall we only keep doc for the latest revision in side xdocs and keep
older versions inside ws-site.
Come on. My feeling is let the person who actually does it decide it.
Thats our practice so far. Mostly Chatra maintains our documents.
AFAIK, she is doing very good stuff. Its unfair if we jump in and make
here job difficult.
Believe me you gain nothing by removing these docs. I'm ok if we can
keep at least two versions back. But for removing all the docs, except
latest, I'm 0- (as I hate to -1 an issue).
Regards,
Chinthaka
