In any case, it then makes more sense to fork the rsyslog repo and work on
it's doc path.

Sent from phone, thus brief.
Am 13.12.2013 22:31 schrieb "Rainer Gerhards" <[email protected]>:

> I think for part of it it is inevitable.  We could  try to keep as much as
> possible.  For the rest, we can do html pages that just link to the new
> ones. Not perfect, but we need to change the structure in any case. ..
>
> Sent from phone, thus brief.
> Am 13.12.2013 22:26 schrieb "David Lang" <[email protected]>:
>
>> On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
>>
>>  Some quick notes:
>>>
>>> David is right with the versioning - I overlooked that. Not a big deal, i
>>> need to pull into the central repo.
>>>
>>> Small html is good.
>>>
>>> Breaking urls is not a problem: we can do redirects (own infrastructure
>>> ;)). That's ok with google. One day of very boring work at most.
>>>
>>
>> you also break the knowledge of where to look for things in the lcoal
>> docs. don't depend just on server level redirects.
>>
>> David Lang
>>
>>  Rainer
>>>
>>> Sent from phone, thus brief.
>>> Am 13.12.2013 21:29 schrieb "David Lang" <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>  On Sat, 14 Dec 2013, Pavel Levshin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  13.12.2013 22:19, David Lang:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Pavel Levshin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Newest version of docs which is published on the site is not very
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> reliable when you are not brave one using bleeding edge software.
>>>>>>> You never
>>>>>>> know if this doc applies to you setup.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> lots of things in the docs talk about what version they were
>>>>>> introduced
>>>>>> in, more things need to have version tags added.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Those tags are of no use, if the document is applied to one known
>>>>> version, only. I personally think that there tags make docs overloaded
>>>>> with
>>>>> unnecessary historic information. This is like having version control
>>>>> system and still describing each change in commentaries.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Since rsyslog has really good backwards compatability, almost all these
>>>> tags end up being 'introduced in vx.y.z' which is a fairly small impact.
>>>>
>>>>  It would be better for users to have several versions of docs on the
>>>>
>>>>> site, at least, for major branches as 5-stable, 7-stable, 7-devel and
>>>>>>> master. It may increase you traffic, though.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> well, the community only supports the latest version, right? ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I don't think so, at least 7-stable, 7-devel and 8-devel are
>>>>> supported
>>>>> now. And previous version is also good to have, just to show its
>>>>> deficiencies.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I should have said we only support one stable version, you are correct
>>>> in
>>>> the versions supported now, but it's usually just one -stable and one
>>>> -devel with the features added in -devel going into a stable before very
>>>> long.
>>>>
>>>> David Lang
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