Open Stack

Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> On 2017-07-27 21:40, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> [...]
>> Please encourage everyone there to explore options that require the
>> least amount of effort. An ideal solution is one we can implement
>> without heroic efforts or having to recruit an army of contributors.
> 
> I agree with the points made in general and want to stress we need
> something that reduces our efforts.

Yes, agree on the general idea of keeping docs around "forever".

> Two more ideas:
> 
> 1) What about enhancing the openstackdocstheme to automatically add a
> watermark if we publish a stable branch document?
> Like on https://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/config-reference/ - which also
> includes a warning that the branch is EOL. What about adding at *start*
> of a branch a message to the index page like "This is the document for
> the SERIES release. Please see https://releases.openstack.org/ whether
> the SERIES release is still supported by the OpenStack community."

That would be a great way of ensuring that old content is not mistaken
for currently-maintained content, encouraging old users to migrate to
newer / better-supported versions.

> 2) The openstackdocstheme has the report a bug link feature. We can
> disable this. If we EOL docs (so, push a change before we eol them), we
> could remove the setting so that "report a bug" does not work.

Cheers,

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)