"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes: > ... I was going for the html effect > of having these views chunked into their own pages, any other changes being > non-detrimental.
But is that a result we want? It will for example break any bookmarks that people might have for these documentation entries. It will also pretty thoroughly break the cross-version navigation links in this part of the docs.
Maybe the benefit is worth those costs, but I'm entirely not convinced of that. I think we need to tread pretty lightly when rearranging longstanding documentation-layout decisions.
Fair points.
The external linking can be solved with redirect rules, as I believe we've done before, and fairly recently. Even if not I think when they see why the break happened they will be happy for the improved user experience.
I do think it is important enough a change to warrant breaking the cross-version navigation links. I can imagine a linking scheme that would still work but I'm doubtful that this is important enough to expend the development effort.
