To be clear I don't think it's a good id to remove the word "since".
There is often big differences between LTS and current stable. Simply
removing old since when hitting one is probably better.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
<vali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If we were to export PDFs of documentation at a certain version than I
> would agree with this.
> Currently my feeling is that we are deleting information and not all our
> users are on LTS or recent versions.
>
> I agree is important to have the most simple and clear documentation, yet
> it's bad that we don't provide versioned documentation.
>
> Also, even cleaning now, it's a task that is very big and the info will get
> deprecated in a year. If the language we use is using present tense, users
> will still be confused 1 year later and still would not know about what
> version that documentation is talking about. Especially since there is no
> way we could validate documentation on year release.
>
> I don't have a clear solution for this problem.
> Thanks,
> Caty
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Sure, make sense.
>>
>> I guess most document useless in >=LTS should be removed. Unless the
>> documentation is designed to give the version information of for
>> changelog stuff.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 1:19 PM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I think we need to start removing old mentions on xwiki.org. It makes
>> it harder to read xwiki pages (as a user has just reported, see
>> https://forum.xwiki.org/t/how-to-increase-active-installs-
>> of-xwiki/3132/6?u=vmassol).
>> >
>> > Also we said we don't support documenting old stuff (we only support doc
>> for LTS, stable and latest).
>> >
>> > For example I just did this:
>> > http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/
>> AdminGuide/Installation/InstallationConcludingSteps/?
>> viewer=changes&rev1=11.2&rev2=11.3
>> >
>> > Is that ok with everyone?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > -Vincent
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thomas Mortagne
>>



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