From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (relay9-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.199]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web11.10186.1631722802386074126 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2021 09:20:03 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=missing; spf=pass (domain: bootlin.com, ip: 217.70.183.199, mailfrom: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) Received: (Authenticated sender: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) by relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3A9A7FF808; Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:20:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com Subject: Re: [docs] [PATCH] manuals: delete unmaintained history sections To: Quentin Schulz , docs@lists.yoctoproject.org, Quentin Schulz References: <20210914145930.371537-1-michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> <20210915105931.yonsqyxkb67ytjim@fedora> <4D8E093F-E713-4BA3-88D2-1BEF4B8C9726@0leil.net> From: "Michael Opdenacker" Organization: Bootlin Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:19:59 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4D8E093F-E713-4BA3-88D2-1BEF4B8C9726@0leil.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Hi Quentin, On 9/15/21 5:49 PM, Quentin Schulz wrote: > Isn't this patch about removing this page? > > Having at least a link in the documentation (might be to some URL outside of docs) to highlight when a release was.. released and when it went EOL. Also the name and number of the release. I agree that we need proper documentation about release and EOL dates for each release, and not just a wiki page. I'm tracking this: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14503However, it may be useful indeed to keep track of the YP version for >> which the documentation was generated. Otherwise, for copies that are >> not published on our website, the only way to figure this out seems to >> be the latest version mentioned in the migration guides. >> >> Something such as "Last updated on Sep 13, 2021, for Yocto Project >> release 3.4" in the common footer, instead of just "Last updated on Sep >> 13, 2021". I could use "&YOCTO_DOC_VERSION;" to get this and it would >> work without extra effort from the people managing the releases. >> >> What do you think? >> > I think those are different topics, so I may not have conveyed my idea the way I intended to. > > On that topic, I can suggest Something like "Yocto Project documentation release 3.4 - Last updated on Sep 13, 2021"? > > But yeah, it could be a good idea especially if the footer is at the bottom of each page on a PDF version of the doc. Sure, I'll propose another change to address this. Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com