On 2025-03-04 at 03:24, Anssi Saari wrote: > David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> writes: > >> It would assist everyone to follow changes to this "Monthly FAQ" >> document if it can be hosted somewhere that provides diffs, such as >> salsa.debian.org, or wiki.debian.org. > > I don't see a problem with just posting the diffs. Preferably in > unified format.
Speaking as the person whose request originally prompted the "last modified" information to be added: * My original intent on that was to have it in the *body* of the message, near the top, not in the Subject line. (Though I don't actively object to having it in the Subject line, either.) * I would find it helpful to also have, not *diffs*, but *a brief, changelog-style list of What's New*, at the top of the FAQ for any edition in which it's changed from the previous edition. (I think I may have suggested that, too, but as a not-necessary nice-to-have - which would be part of why I haven't followed up to suggest it further since then.) I wouldn't necessarily object to diffs, of course, but I don't really expect that there will turn out to be a practicable way to provide them that won't be either A: awkward or clunky to access from the recipient's perspective, or B: non-negligibly more trouble to set up and provide from the poster's perspective, if not both. (B would make it less worth the while for the person posting the FAQ to bother with doing this at all - which is *another* part of the reason why I haven't followed up to suggest the up-front "What's New" summary list, since that would have the same problem to a different degree.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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