Re: 'latest' dir is now renamed to '1_1' in axis2 xdocs

[Afkham Azeez]

I fully agree with Deepal. Maintaining two versions of the documentation on the trunk is an adhoc way of version management. When SVN does such a good job, why should we go for such an adhoc structure? We never do this for the code, so why special treatment for the docs? As Deepal said, the correct way of doing this should be cutting a branch in SVN after the 1.1 release, and any documentation bugs in 1.1 should be fixed in that branch (and most probably, also in the trunk). BTW, I think this is not the first time this has been argued on this list :D

Azeez

On 9/29/06, Deepal Jayasinghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Chatra and all,

Well , I know we had the same kind of structure for previous releases as
well . But I am -1 on keeping two doc folders.  And I can not name any
other Apache project which use this kind of document structure. In the
meantime keeping duplication data make unnecessary  complication ,
  - if we find error in one document ,  need to change them in two
location. Is that good habit (I dont think so)
  - If some one new to Axis2 , and if he download Axis2 what kind of doc
structure will he get ? if I download Axis2 today do I need to know
about the previous version docs. (I know its useful to have them in the
web site , but not in the code base)

And remember , we use "SVN" and after each release we cut a branch , so if
some one want to update old doc , go and update them in the branch (if you
think it is really necessary, o.w just update that in the current SVN)

Specially I dont like to have version related stuff , in the current code
base , if we have we should remove them.

Finally , this is the first time I -1 in this mailing list , that is b'coz
I honestly dont like that  :).

Thanks
Deepal



Chatra Nakkawita wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a note to let you know that the latest dir in the
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/ is
> now renamed as 1_1.
>
> This was done as part of updating/creating documents for upcoming Axis2
> 1.1 release and to  make sure that all the links in terms of Axis2 1.1
> documents work. The documents for this release are been worked on
> currently. Any document updates in terms of Axis2 1.1 version needs to
> be made on
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/1_1 .
>
> Once Axis2 1.1 is released, we will create a latest dir (which will
> start off as a copy of the final 1_1 dir, to make sure that we use an
> up-to-date documents version) which will serve as the working document
> directory. Which means that after 1.1 release what ever updates in terms
> of the worked on Axis2 version will be made on the new 'latest' dir.
>
> Thanks & regards,
>
> Chatra
>
>
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Afkham Azeez