Open Stack

+2

I am in support of this approach.  It is clear that people are still 
looking for content from older releases long after it has been released 
but making it clearer that it is an EOL release is an improvement.

Jay


On 7/28/2017 4:38 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> 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,
>