Neal McBurnett wrote: > I still think that marking the version information for in-development > documentation would be very helpful. > Surely we want people to be able to comment on this documentation in > ways that make it clear what version they are commenting on, so the > writer can easily tell if the issue has already been addressed, etc. > > It seems that every other way we have of delivering content to people, > we make it clear what the version is, via command line options, dpkg -l, > wiki reversion info, etc. > > So why not mark version information when we make documentation easily > available for comment?
I'd have thought it was self-evident that the draft documentation is up to date. Perhaps it would be useful to include the bzr revision number somewhere. > I think this is not a tiny issue - see also e.g. > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-doc/+bug/122297 > Server Guide draft has higher Google rank than released version. That's orthogonal. > This is also true for the stuff at help.ubuntu.com. At least that says > what release it is for, but not anything that would tell a user or > documentation volunteer easily whether or not an update had been > deployed, or where to find the source code for exactly what they are > looking at. I think people would always assume it's always up to date. If it isn't, it should be. > Is it hard to add some version information or a link to get it? > If someone wanted to submit a patch to resolve this, what would need patching > and where is the source for it? Well it'd probably want to be website specific so may be one of these files: teamstuff/html2docbook/html2docbook.xsl teamstuff/doc.ubuntu.com/sidebar.inc.php You can get the code here: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/ubuntu-doc/ubuntu-hardy Cheers, Dean -- copyright dates not being updated https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192202 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
