Re: Publish date with announcements?

On Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:36:57 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Martin,
> 
> On Monday, February 25, 2013 19:00:40 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > I was just looking for some info about KDE4 alpha 1 and the first search
> > result was the announcement from kde.org, which is great. However that
> > whole article has no date on it, so one has no idea when is that
> > announcement from. Then I found out that all the announcements have no
> > date, even article publishing. Given the announcements being archived, I
> > think it would make sense to add publish date to the web template.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-alpha1.php
> 
> Look for "May 11, 2007", it's there on all announcement pages (that I've
> checked), right at the start of the announcement. That's consistent with how
> press releases are done.
> 
> Ok, I got confused. What Google returns as a first result for 4.0 alpha1 is
> this: http://www.kde.org/announcements/visualguide-4.0-alpha1.php - which
> is the visual guide, that has no link to the original announcement, albeit
> it does say the 4.0 will be out in October 2007. However - latest
> announcement - http://kde.org/announcements/4.10/ - has no date at all,
> same for 4.9 - http://kde.org/announcements/4.9/ 
> 
> So when someone will be searching for those announcements, there's no
> indication of "when" this was released. And given it will be returned quite
> high in search results, I still think it would be good to have the date
> there somewhere.

Is that really so much of an issue? I mean, you specifically searched for an 
old version, it's not like the information is misleading, or that people will 
be confused easily. It sounds a bit like overthinking it, to me. 
-- 
sebas

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