I completely agree with Chris. I have used documentation that was considered
out of date to correct install issues on my previous laptop, however, I
couldn't tell you where they were located because I simply used Google to
search for my issue.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Marshall [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: July-25-10 3:51 PM
To: Daniel Carrera
Cc: perldl
Subject: Re: [Perldl] Documentation Proposal
A wiki is a community effort. Even if those pages are out-of-date they might
have information that could be of use trying to work out the new install
directions or as a reference for older linux systems.
Once the replacement is in place and checked out, then the old pages are fully
deprecated and may be deleted.
Cheers,
Chris
On 7/25/2010 5:37 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Chris Marshall<[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 7/25/2010 4:36 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>> No.
>>
>> Please do not do that.
>
> Why not? If you are not willing to delete stuff you will just end up
> an ever-growing number of useless pages, distracting users, leading
> them astray, and cluttering up your namespace. You will not get a
> quality site if you are not willing to delete bad stuff. Please take a
> look at some of these pages:
>
> * Mac OS X page: It has *no* information. What do you want to save?
> The page title?
>
> * Linux:
>
> 1. Ubuntu Edgy Eft ans Ubuntu Gutsy: Why in the name of heavens are
> there different pages for different versions of Ubuntu (btw, one is 4
> years old, and one is 3 years old). Imagine for a moment what it would
> be like if you actually started doing this every version of Ubuntu, or
> even worse, for all the major distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora and
> openSUSE).
>
> 2. Why do we have pages for Knoppix and Gentoo but not for Fedora and
> SUSE? Where is the sense in that? And even if you add pages for Fedora
> and SUSE, do you plan to add pages for every distribution that is more
> popular than Knoppix and Gentoo?
>
> You *cannot* fix these problems without hitting "delete". The problem
> is that you have a bunch of pages that should not exist. Having these
> pages is incompatible with having a well organized and coherent
> install documentation.
>
>> *and* put a link to the old pages on
>> the new page as (deprecated references) until the new instructions
>> are in place and correct.
>
> There are no new instructions forthcoming for these pages I assure
> you. Do you really think that someone is going to regularly update a
> page that is specific to Ubuntu Edgy Eft? And even if we had people
> willing to regularly update pages for ever-aging versions of Ubuntu,
> would we really *want* that? Do you want to keep a page about Edgy Eft
> indefinitely?
>
> Do you realize that even *Canonical* has not supported Edgy Eft for
> more than 2 years? !! Similarly, Canonical's support for Gutsy ended
> more than a *year* ago. Does it really make sense to keep these pages
> just because someone decided to write them years ago?
>
> Daniel.
>
>
>
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