Greg <curtys...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2025-05-20, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > >> FWIW I didn't find "keep it up to date" useful feedback. > > > > Here's my view: replace each current page with a list of "per Debian > > version" pages. So, when someone edits a page, they don't edit the > > "DebianBootstrap" page, but the "DebianBootstrap/trixie" page. > > All compendiums of knowledge are kept up to date (dictionaries, > encyclopedias, etc). > > To argue otherwise is nuts.
Dictionaries and encyclopedias generally have paid staff. It used to be they were paid by people buying printed copies; nowadays they're paid from advertising or subscriptions or whatever. The big exception is Wikipedia and even that has regular donation campaigns. The Debian wiki is edited by volunteers, and apart from the problem of getting enough volunteers there's also the 'herding cats' aspect; it's more difficult to manage volunteers. So when proposing answers to Jonathan's original question, it's very important to keep the very tight resource constraint in mind when making proposals. Marking pages with the Debian version to which they correspond takes a lot less work than ensuring every page is up-to-date all the time. And people use different versions of Debian at the same time, so there isn't even a single answer to which version people want to see.
