Thanks David! Looks like a pretty comprehensive roundup to me. Important perhaps to clarify our goals:
- Simplify maintenance and updates - Simplify the structure for users - Create the ability to keep as many old releases online w/o extra efforts just as well as retire the easily if we want to. > The main things to note are: > * There is a new tab "Other Versions" which provides access > to 0.6 and 0.8-dev docs. They are not in place yet, but you can > see where they will fit. Each version here has all the documents the where previously found in the Docs-Tab in exactly the same menu structure. The integrity of links is preserved so that references in versioned docs will take you to the document within the same version. > * The top-level docs (Welcome and Project tabs) are separated > from the versioned docs. Tools is also non-versioned, Plugins has it own versioning scheme (see my discussion with Ross on this) > * Each version has its own directory: docs_0_70, docs_0_80, docs_0_60 containing only the versioned documents (formerly docs and subdirectories) > * The source documents for all three versions are held in the > "site-author" directory. > * To update the website, it would now be very easy to do a simple > 'svn co' on the server. The current workaround is very clumsy, need > to do various spearate checkouts, parts of it come from trunk and > parts from the release branch, very error prone, hard to change over > at each release. This new method will be lots easier. > * Better layout of site.xml enables easy adjustment at the next release. > * How-Tos do not have their own tab, moved to the Docs tab. So now all versioned documentation is under one roof and in one menu. -- Ferdinand Soethe
