Thanks for your early feedback Kostas and Ted. @Kostas: I have a proposal for a more obvious warning here: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4553 Would appreciate comments in that PR too :-)
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > Without any upgrade path, the old versions are not useful. > > +1 on redirecting doc to stable release(s). > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Kostas Kloudas <k.klou...@data-artisans.com >> wrote: > >> Hi Ufuk, >> >> +1 >> >> I think that this is a nice change! >> Thanks Ufuk for opening the discussion. >> >> I think that broken/redirect links are not an issue, >> as either way the information provided is far outdated >> (== wrong). >> >> As for the warning, we cannot put it in the header instead >> of the footer? Sth like, this page may contain outdated info, >> please refer to XXX for an updated version. >> >> Kostas >> >> > On Aug 16, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: >> > >> > Hey devs, >> > >> > I would like to stop serving the documentation for all Flink versions >> > prior to 1.0. >> > >> > Do you have any concerns about this? >> > >> > These Flink versions are very old without any upgrade path to newer >> > versions but they still get a lot of traffic and most new users don't >> > realize that they are looking at a very outdated docs page. >> > >> > Even with a stronger warning about being outdated, I don't see a point >> > in serving them. >> > >> > If we choose to do this, I would redirect these ancient pages to the >> > docs of the latest stable release and update the release process Wiki >> > page to update those redirects etc. >> > >> > This will mean that some links in old StackOverflow questions and the >> > mailing list archives will be broken/redirected. If you have concerns >> > about this, please raise your voice in this thread. >> > >> > – Ufuk >> > >> > PS: I've created an issue to improve the visibility of the outdated >> > warning here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7462. I will >> > only apply this to versions >= 1.0 for now. >> >>
