Quick update: If there are no objections, I will start looking into how to stop serving the docs for Flink < 1.0 after tomorrow.
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 as either way the information provided is far outdated 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 Sth like, this page may contain outdated info, 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 realize that they are looking at a very outdated docs page.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 Even with a stronger warning about being outdated, I don't see a point 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 PS: I've created an issue to improve the visibility of the outdated 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. >>> >>>
