Pierre Neidhardt <[email protected]> skribis: >> Currently, the manual shown on guix.info is fairly close to the latest >> in git. This means it contains documentation about channels, which >> cannot be found in the latest release that matches the manual on >> gnu.org. > > This is crucial, I believe. I believe. "Static" documentation is a Bad Idea. > I think the manual is better than a wiki, but only if contributors can work on > it "live".
One obvious problem with documentation on the web is that it’s hard to tell if it matches the version of what you’re actually using. (That’s one of the reasons for the “Documentation” section in the manual.) The only reason IMO that justifies keeping “static” documentation (for the latest release) is the installation instructions: these may change anytime in ‘master’, but it’s important that those on-line match what people will actually download. Thoughts? Ludo’.
