On 13/01/2018 03.34, Andrew David Wong wrote:
> On 2018-01-12 08:00, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote:
> > On Fri, January 12, 2018 1:09 pm, Holger Levsen wrote:
>
> >> I'm not so sure, why not use git branches?
>
>
> One reason that comes to mind:
>
> Segregating the documentation into two different branches would mean
> that contributions that apply to both Qubes versions would only end up
> in one branch, unless someone remembers to manually submit the same
> thing to the other branch and actually makes the effort to do so. Most
> of the time, this won't happen. When it does, it means a second pull
> request that has to be reviewed. Over time, the different branches
> will diverge in non-version-specific content. Good general content
> that was submitted only to the 3.2 branch will effectively disappear
> once 3.2 is deprecated. (Even if it's still on the website, no one
> will look at it, since it'll explicitly be in the subdirectory of a
> deprecated version. And there will be a motivation to remove it from
> the website so that search results aren't populated with out-of-date
> information.)
That ought to be part of the review process, don't you think? ("Have
you opened PRs for these other branches?")
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