Currently there are 9 documentation links. Of these 9, 6 are some form of internal GnuCash documentation and 3 are external guides.
Below is my *interpretation* of what version of the docs the 6 internal GnuCash docs represent:
Tutorial/Concepts (English) - v1.8 user guide Help Manual (English) - v1.8 help manual GnuCash Hilfe (Deutsch) - v1.8 help manual in German Espagnol - v1.6 in Spanish Francais - v1.6(?) in French Portugues - v1.6 in Portuguese
The 3 external guides are "GnuCash for Business Users", "Joe Mack's Tutorial", and "Dave Gilbert's User Guide".
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I propose that we clean this up a bit. What if we had 3 main links, 2 going to the latest versions of the User's Guide and Help Manual.
Like this (brackets mean a link):
Documentation [User's Guide] [Help Manual] [de] [other]
Notice, there is a [de] link next to help manual, because there is a german translation of the help manual.
The [other] link would lead to a new gnucash.org page like this:
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Contributed Documentation [GnuCash for Business Users] [Joe Mack's Tutorial] [Dave Gilbert's User Guide]
Documentation from v1.6 of GnuCash [English] [Espagnol] [Portugues] [Francais]
Documentation from v1.4 of GnuCash [English] [Espagnol] [Portugues] [Francais]
Documentation In Development [GnuCash v1.10 "in devel" docs]
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Advantages:
1) we clearly show what we think is the best documentation for people to use. That is, the latest GnuCash documentation.
2) We *still make available* all forms of documentation. No judgements, every possible documentation concerning GnuCash will be available.
3) This approach is much more extensible, when GnuCash v1.10 comes out, the documentation for v1.8 simply moves into the [other] link. Hell, if we have any "older than 1.6 documentation", let's put that on the [other] link too.
4) Left hand column of the web site becomes simpler to navigate, less links.
5) We could put a "in development" link on the [other] page, where documentation people could put their in development docs. Kind of like what I am doing now with my own web site.
Disadvantages:
1) Two clicks to get to documentation other than the current User Guide and Help Manual.
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