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From: "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc]  Re: [RFC] Marking unmaintained documents
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:01:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <432AC210.5020400@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20050915T135454-193@post.gmane.org>

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Xavier Neys wrote:
> Of course, users reading a 2004.3 handbook should realise it's old, but they
> could at least be told it's not maintained anymore so that 1) they can read it
> with a grain of salt 2) they should not bother submitting bugs.

IMHO that's against what SwifT said about fixing?

> Dumping the text in the doc itself is not a great idea as it will lead to
> cut'n'paste errors and lose consistency. Besides, scripts could not distinguish
> normal content from such disclaimers.

Yep.

> Another way would have been to list the outdated/unmaintained docs in an
> external file, or add attributes to metadoc. IMO, this adds some unnecessary
> complexity.

External file would look mroe elegant to me, but that's just me.

> I much prefer something along Flammie's idea, a new tag. This way, we just need
> to add the tag to the relevant doc and forget about it.
> 
> As we already see the need for different disclaimers, I suggest using a
> <disclaimer> tag with a type attribute. The relevant text is fished from our
> inserts.xml files and I suggest displaying it right at the top of the content
> area. It needs to be either before, after or on the side, but I'd rather not
> insert it randomly in the text.

Seems great.

> Now about outdated translations:
> It's possible to use metadoc to check the corresponding original and display a
> note about a more recent original.

That would be great.

> I've implemented the following:
> If a translation is not listed in its local metadoc, warn users translation is
> not maintained.
> If a translation is listed in its local metadoc, but not in the parent one (ie.
> the English one), warn users original doc is not maintained anymore.
> If file appears both in local and English metadocs, compare their dates and warn
> users that a more recent original exists with a link to it.

Well, as I said on IRC, I'd prefer checking <version>, but <date> is
also better than nothing, yep (code which would check <version>s of HB
files is not available).

Cheers,
-jkt

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-16 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-08 16:56 [gentoo-doc] [RFC] Marking unmaintained documents Jan Kundrát
2005-09-08 17:07 ` Xavier Neys
2005-09-08 17:36   ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-08 17:54     ` Xavier Neys
2005-09-08 18:12       ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-08 19:04         ` Shyam Mani
2005-09-09 17:00           ` Sven Vermeulen
2005-09-09 16:57         ` Sven Vermeulen
2005-09-10 13:10           ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-10 18:22             ` Sven Vermeulen
2005-09-10 20:26               ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-14 16:55                 ` Sven Vermeulen
2005-09-14 18:20                   ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-08 21:00   ` Alexey Chumakov
2005-09-08 21:10     ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-08 21:11     ` Łukasz Damentko
2005-09-09  1:13 ` Flammie Pirinen
2005-09-09  6:50   ` Alexey Chumakov
2005-09-09 13:10     ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-09 13:08   ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-09 15:49     ` Flammie Pirinen
2005-09-09 16:26       ` Łukasz Damentko
2005-09-10 13:11         ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-09 16:50 ` Sven Vermeulen
2005-09-10 12:35   ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-15 11:51 ` Xavier Neys
2005-09-15 11:55 ` [gentoo-doc] " Xavier Neys
2005-09-16 13:01   ` Jan Kundrát [this message]
2005-09-17 12:06     ` Sven Vermeulen
2005-09-19  7:51   ` Alexey Chumakov
2005-09-16  9:01 ` [gentoo-doc] " Xavier Neys
2005-09-16 13:07   ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-16 15:24     ` Xavier Neys
2005-09-16 18:51       ` Jan Kundrát
2005-09-29 15:41   ` Xavier Neys
1980-01-03 20:09     ` Alexey Chumakov
2005-09-29 16:49     ` Jose Luis Rivero
2005-09-29 22:57     ` Łukasz Damentko
2005-09-30  7:20     ` Shyam Mani
2005-09-30  8:59     ` Flammie Pirinen
2005-09-30 16:29     ` Sven Vermeulen
2005-10-02 13:11       ` Jan Kundrát
2005-10-09 10:21       ` Xavier Neys

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