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 > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > Thanks for pointing out the redirects, Chris. I agree they should point to "stable".
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