On Tuesday, June 05, 2012 10:59:54 AM Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
wrote:
> >> The amount of pages actually having been renamed isn't that big. Marti
> >> opened up his version of the docs to me and I browsed along and even
> >> between 7.4 and 9.1 I had a hard time finding pages where you would
> >> expect a link from 7.4 forwards.
> >
> > Exactly. And people rely on page names right now anyway -- they find
> > the page on Google and then just change the version number in the URL
> > and see if it works. Either that, or they will read the wrong version.
> > What I'm proposing solves >95% of the cases and I think that is good
> > enough.
>
> Given that nobody has objecte,d I'm going to go ahead and do this.
Great!
> However - should we perhaps just list supported versions? Turns the query
> into: versions =
> DocPage.objects.filter(file=fullname).extra(where=['version IN (SELECT
> tree FROM core_version WHERE
> supported)']).order_by('-version').only('version', 'file')
>
> or if we do want to list all versions, we should somehow indicate
> which versions are supported and not on this list as well, I think.
> But I'm happy to just listed supported versions for now.
I personally would like to see older versions there because every now and then
I need to look something up for them, but its infrequent enough that I don't
especially care.
Thanks!
Andres
PS: Sorry Magnus, youve got the email twice. I recently reconfigured my mail
client to disassociate reply-all from its previous key combination and I
havent fully retrained myself.
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