Hi Pranay,

It is a good idea of course to keep multiple versions of documentation for
multiple releases.

Talking in terms of priority, however, I think perhaps we need to spend
most of our energy into first organizing and cleaning up our documentation.
We need an API section, a user manual, a developer manual, and a set of
tutorials. All of these need to be categorized and point to each other in
hyperlinks. Right now, the documentation is heavily scattered in different
and confusing sections. There is no "one location" for getting a piece of
information. So for example, the business processes could be maybe part of
the "User Manual" right? We don't have such a categorization at the moment
which dilutes value.

Also if you think about it, good organization of this information would
make it easier to create release-specific documentation because you're
building on the same organized skeleton. So in short I agree with your
approach but trying to convince you to perhaps try to focus your energy on
organizing our documentation if you have the time for it.

Thank you as always for your initiative.

Cheers,

Taher Alkhateeb

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Pranay Pandey <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am thinking to make a change in document hierarchy for Business Process
> and Use Case Library for Ecommerce ERP
> <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/1gm8Ag>. I think we can rename it
> for branch or release.
> E.g. we can prepare first set of documents for branch Release 14.12. So the
> document hierarchy will look like:
>
> - Business Process and Use Case Library for Ecommerce ERP
> -- Release 14.12
> -- Release 16.12
> -- and so on
>
> So the idea is to dedicatedly build documents for specific branch or
> releases. This way a set of the documents will be declared to be used for a
> specific release being used. As we start preparing for the new release, we
> can copy from old release and append the additions to it. We can then also
> add test cases(with a mark of success or failure for each for all the
> components) along with User Stories and Use Cases which will add more value
> to it.
>
> With its current name and structure it indicates, it's for trunk and having
> it managed on release basis will bring in more attention to it.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts on it. If no objections are seen I would
> like to make this change in a day or two.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Pranay Pandey
> HotWax Systems
> http://www.hotwaxsystems.com/
>

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