On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Chris Tyler - [email protected]
<+tosmaillist+neophyte_rep+3ec31c2a91.chris#[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 09:25 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:08:58PM -0700, 
>> [email protected] wrote:
>> > Quaid (also known as Karsten),
>> >
>> > I noticed your "Summary" comments, "pulling in the 0.8 page for now
>> > via transclusion; need to think about what should be on this page or
>> > is it a redirect or what?"
>>
>> Thanks for doing more thinking about it. :)
>>
>> > May I suggest that there needs to be a [[Practical OSS Exploration
>> > Stable]] that is a redirect to the last release, which, at the present
>> > time, is [[Textbook Release 0.8]].
>> > There also needs to be another redirect page [[Practical OSS
>> > Exploration Development]], where "Development" is the alias for the
>> > version being improved, which, at the present time, would be
>> > [[Practical OSS Exploration 0.8.1]]. We have a page [[Textbook
>> > Roadmap]] that seems to have the appropriate links to the chapters
>> > that are available for modification to become [[Practical OSS
>> > Exploration 0.8.1]].  The table of links in [[Textbook Roadmap]] could
>> > be removed and a link to [[Practical OSS Exploration Development]]
>> > substituted.  Then we'd be set to make changes.
>>
>> That makes sense to me.  One change I recommend is that we rename
>> [[Textbook Release 0.8]] to the name you suggested, [[P OSS E
>> stable]].  Renaming automatically creates a redirect.  (I'm also
>> making non-proper names/titles lower case, as is the MediaWiki
>> practice.)
>>
>> I'm going to draw that here with some arrows, then one of us can make
>> it happen on the wiki.  For visual ease, I'll abbreviate "Practical
>> OSS Exploration" to "P OSS E" (which is visually confusing with our
>> "POSSE" acronym but not impossible to see around.)
>>
>> Also, how about cleaning up the naming all around?
>>
>> [[Textbook Release 0.8]] --_rename_--> [[P OSS E stable]]
>> [[P OSS E development]]  --_redir_-->  [[P OSS E 0.8.1]]
>> [[Textbook Roadmap]]   --_rename_--> [[P OSS E textbook roadmap]]
>>
>> [[P OSS E textbook roadmap]] set of links either replaced with link to
>> [[P OSS E development]] or have the latter transcluded directly in to
>> the roadmap page.
>>
>> - Karsten
>
> Remember also that the short URLs
> http://teachingopensource.org/{text,textbook} redirect to [[Textbook
> Redirect]], which is a trampoline that can be pointed wherever you want
> -- looks to me like you'll want it to point to [[P OSS E stable]].
>
> -Chris
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Thanks for pointing out the redirects, Chris.  I agree they should
point to "stable".

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