On 01/11/2018 01:16 PM, Unman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:18:46AM +0000, 'Tom Zander' via qubes-users wrote: >> On Thursday, 11 January 2018 03:42:11 GMT Andrew David Wong wrote: >>> On 2018-01-10 12:53, 'Tom Zander' via qubes-users wrote: >> >>>> I poked the Qubes guys about providing a separate dir on the website to >>>> make it clear what is 3.x and what is 4.x specific, but they stated we >>>> should instead put notices about exceptions in the document pages. >>> >>> That's not exactly right. Please see: >> .. >>> >>> In other words, do not just add notices in the text about exceptions. >>> Instead, make clearly-labeled sections for 3.x and 4.x so that users >>> can easily find the right information no matter which version of Qubes >>> they're using. >>> >>>> So I guess things like ProxyVMs should be mentioned to be old and AppVM >>>> is the new. >> >> Ok, I am having problem seeing your solution and my explanation of it as any >> different, in practice. >> Maybe I'm missing the obvious, I'm just not seeing it. >> >> In this specific case of the VPN page. https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/vpn/ >> * in v.4 there is no "NetVM". >> * There is no "ProxyVM" >> * The create qubes screenshot is considerably different. >> * adding 'meminfo-writer' and 'network-manager' are not needed (AFAIK). >> * does not use iptables anymore. >> >> Ok, going to stop now. I got to half the page and some 80% of the text and >> screenshots are wrong for v4. >> >> How would you solve that in line with the QubesOS policy? > > The difference is between this style: > > You can attach a disk image to a qube using qvm-block : > qvm-block -A <target> [qube:]<file> > (This syntax is not available in 4.0) > > and this: > 3.0 > You can attach a disk image to a qube using qvm-block : > qvm-block -A <target> [qube:]<file> > > 4.0 > You cannot attach a disk image to a qube using qvm-block. > > > The advantage of using labelled sections is that it should be easier > for users to find the material relevant to the version they are using. > Also, that once 3.0 is retired, it will be simple to remove the 3.0 > relevant material, rather than filleting our bits from each page. > > On the VPN case your own comment confirms that it would be better to > provide a separate section, rather than trying to put "exceptions" in to > the existing text. >
At least no section repetition for the scripts should be necessary. But doing this for the dialogs still adds a lot to an already long doc. I feel that, apart from making some docs look deceptively long and less readable, the most significant downside to melding 3.x/4.x instructions together would be to discourage contributions from users. It makes the thought of every potential edit seem like a slog through extra markdown, and many will think "I don't have time to install 3.2 to write up that version". -- Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net https://github.com/tasket https://twitter.com/ttaskett PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/c01a27b7-4f52-1764-9e26-ed0c0721832d%40posteo.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
