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From: Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Structural changes for Documentation directory
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:38:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41773D3F.2040801@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041021042036.GB14189@redhat.com>

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:51:04PM -0400, Jim Nelson wrote:
> 
>  > True.  "./2.6-docs" would reflect the the intent of having 
>  > version-specific information, with the "./Documentation" directory left 
>  > for general information and files of historical interest.
> 
> version numbers in directories are nearly always a bad idea,
> as they always tend to look a bit silly when the subsequent
> release is made.
> 
> 		Dave
> 
> 

But it would also give a clue that the docs are out of date.  Perhaps 
later in each developement cycle, there could be an effort to check the 
documentation, with a 2.8-docs or 3.0-docs being the result, and dumping 
the 2.6-docs into the historical reference directory.

Or, the old stuff could be dropped with the new stable release.

The other possibility is to have a TODO file with a list of out-of-date 
files, and have the removal of the file listing in the TODO file be part 
of the patch submission.

Jim

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-21  4:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-20 20:51 [RFC] Structural changes for Documentation directory Jim Nelson
2004-10-20 22:23 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-10-20 22:44   ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-20 22:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-20 22:51   ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-21  4:20     ` Dave Jones
2004-10-21  4:38       ` Jim Nelson [this message]
2004-10-21  5:00         ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-21  5:05           ` Dave Jones
2004-10-21  5:07             ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-21  9:43             ` Jim Nelson

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