On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Any objections to removing the "stable" developer guide link from the docs
> page? It is not like the user guide in that we need to maintain multiple
> branches of it. And actually currently the stable one is out of sync and
> missing some content.

Works for me. What about people really wanting to develop on 2.1.x?
Some sort of redirect to the trunk guide could be interesting.

Generally speaking there are two kinds of developers:
- those that contribute to the project. They know trunk is the only place
  where a commit must always be, unless you want to lose it at the
  next series. They don't need a "stable" developer guide
- there is the lot of developers customizing GS for their own use, which
  often stay on the stable series. These people often do not contribute
  squat to GeoServer, so we could say we don't care.... or we could make
  it easy for them to get in, hoping that someone sees the light and tries
  to actually contribute back (those that do not plan to contribute back
  anything anyways, well, they don't exist to me).

Long story short, it boils down to whether the dev guide has strong
ties to the branch (I guess it does not atm?) and whether we want
to reach out for potential new devs (though I admin the return potential
is often low).

Cheers
Andrea

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