>>>> "APA" == Adrian Aichner
<adrian(a)xemacs.org> writes:
APA> People will read the page out of context. Therefore, the
APA> avoid confusion, I suggest it should be updated from today's
APA> point of view in all important places.
APA> Stephen, would that be a lot of trouble for you to do?
It looks like a substantial amount of work to do accurately. For
example, "people with projects" that didn't make it in to 21.4 ought
to be polled about status. Also, I suspect that some of the separate
project pages may be referenced from outside of that subtree.
It would be more natural to update the 2-year gap in the history as it
is relevant to new plans when we start planning the next big release.
I will get started on revising the pages to make the historical
context clear, but I really don't think that's enough.
I think the thing to do quickly is to make the reference indirect,
except for contexts where it is made clear that this material is of
historical interest only. If we can arrange it, a "Warning: this page
has has not been updated, and is primarily of historical interest"
with an automatic redirect (and pick up any #place if possible) would
be best for the indirect reference.
Then clean up the other pages gradually, especially the index.html in
each directory. Ie, either remove the reference or point out that
it's historical. The material really is dated, so it's not really
appropriate to refer to it in most contexts.
I'll review and revise all the index.content's over the next week or
so. Also, I'll put an indirect HTML page in for
Release-21.2/index.html. Adrian, could you look in to the possibility
of an automatic redirect for that URL?
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