Re: Keep documentation for previous versions when updating it to reflect new behaviour and features

Graham Perrin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hanno Schlichting wrote: 

> Israel Saeta Pérez wrote:
> 
>> If I'm not wrong, Plone 2.5 is still supported so anything from
>> 2.5 to 3.x should be kept.
> 
> … To my best knowledge the version policy I proposed met the
> boards favor, which means at this point Plone 3.2 is the only
> supported release. Support for Plone 2.5 of any kind has ended
> with the release of Plone 3.1 about a year ago.

There was discussion in December 2008 <http://n2.nabble.com/-tp1680203p1680203.html> (I missed that, sorry) but the story that I have been told, on various occasions, is that 2.5.x will remain supported until 4.0 is released. 

The announcement re: 2.1 coincided when 3.0 was released, and we gained the reassurance that:

>>> Plone Team offers security fixes and community support for 
>>> two major releases

<http://n2.nabble.com/-tp362555p362555.html>

IMHO it would be wrong to change a support policy mid-term, especially when there is less than 100% widespread community appreciation of the benefits of buildout etc..

On 19 Apr 2009, at 08:43, Raphael Ritz wrote:

> From what I know there are still many sites out there that are on
> Plone 2.5.x

My recollection from the Zope/Plone day in London, February 2008, was that the *majority* of those present continued to run 2.x, with no imminent plan to upgrade to 3. There were degrees of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", I also sensed that people had invested greatly in a particular major version. 

Dylan Jay wrote: 

> … keep copies of official manuals in folders marked with the
> version number... like python does
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.4/lib/lib.html
> Then the documentation reader *always* knows at a glance they are/
> aren't reading the documentation for the version they want.

+1 

If we're thinking of *creating* folder hierarchies, it may be good to gain confirmation from someone in Plone Deco <http://groups.google.com/group/plone-deco> that an information architecture currently envisaged will be of continuing value in a Plone 4 environment. 

Regards
Graham
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