Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([98.129.198.125]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T7q63-0005xS-8D for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:58:55 +0000 Received: from momjian.us ([72.94.173.45]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T7q62-00080J-AM for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:58:54 +0000 Received: from bruce by momjian.us with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T7q60-0003fu-Io; Sat, 01 Sep 2012 11:58:52 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 11:58:52 -0400 From: Bruce Momjian To: Jeff Davis Cc: Heikki Linnakangas , PostgreSQL www Subject: Re: [DOCS] Confusion over "This page in other versions" links Message-ID: <20120901155852.GC2969@momjian.us> References: <502A293E.70403@enterprisedb.com> <1344992748.25533.31.camel@sussancws0025> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1344992748.25533.31.camel@sussancws0025> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Pg-Spam-Score: -2.1 (--) X-Archive-Number: 201209/1 X-Sequence-Number: 20936 On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:05:48PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:32 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > > I just had a discussion with someone off-list, where he was looking at > > the documentation page of a contrib module at www.postgresql.org/docs. > > Looking at the page, he came to the conclusion that the module was no > > longer supported in 9.2, because the header at the top of the page said: > > > > "This page in other versions: 9.1 / 9.0 / 8.4 / 8.3 | Unsupported > > versions: 9.2 / devel" > > > > I find the links really helpful, but apparently they can be > > misunderstood. Perhaps we should change the "Unsupported versions" text > > to "future versions" or "Development versions". Or change "9.2" to "9.2 > > (beta)", and remove the "Unsupported versions" text altogether. > > Or perhaps: > > "This document for version: 9.1 / 9.0 / 8.4 / 8.3 | devel / 9.2 (beta) | > Old versions: 8.2 / 8.1 / ..." > > I didn't read the original rationale, but it's not clear to me why we > have quick links to the documents for unsupported versions. Maybe just > have one link "unsupported versions" that goes to > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/archive/ ? I am sending this to the www list, which is where these headers are generated. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +