On Mon May 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM BST, Greg wrote:
On 2025-05-16, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote:
On Thu May 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM BST, Dan Ritter wrote:
The most prominent issue I can see is that there is no unified
sense of chronology. That is, I can look at a page and not have
any idea whether it is correct for current Stable.
That's what I said more succinctly. Keep the wikis up to date (I thought
it went without saying "for Debian stable," though there's always a
myriad of ways to be misunderstood but normally only one way to be so).
FWIW I didn't find "keep it up to date" useful feedback. One way of
interpreting it is "delete out-of-date pages". In extremis I think this
would be a bad idea (but others may not agree).
Another interpretation is "edit out-of-date pages so they are no longer
out-of-date". We don't have enough person-power to do that at the
moment, and I doubt we ever will. So IMHO we need a more refined
strategy.
Establishing conventions about which Debian version is described by
default (I'm sure there are those with a view that we should document
the latest package versions, rather than the latest Debian release), and
how we indicate if a section or page is applicable to a different
version, and how an editor could mark a page as potentially out-of-date
or misleading (short of removing it entirely), I think are useful ways
forward.
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