From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Brian Proffitt" <bproffit(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: devel(a)ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2014 11:09:48 AM Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] [Features] Special Request for Feature Page Cleanup Projecy On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:18:05AM -0400, Brian Proffitt wrote: > All: > > It has been requested that we add date/timestamps to the Features pages in > order to highlight the age of each page and assist users in determining > how fresh information is. After investigating various options to do this > within the database or using automated code, it seems that the > old-fashioned manual way is still the best option. This is because an > automated solution would only insert the needed strings, but not the > actual data that pertains to that feature. > > To divide this work among the community, I have made an inventory of all of > the features pages in the oVirt.org site as of 3/30/14, located at > http://bit.ly/1iA1HQ3. > > If everyone can take a look at this sheet (check the tabs on the bottom, > too) and find the pages they created or for which they are responsible, > the following steps should be taken for pages that are marked "Yes" in > "Needs Datestamp": > > 1. Add the following line to the top of each page, under the first heading: > > {{Feature|name=[Name of Feature]}|modules=[Node(s) of > feature]|version=[oVirt version number]|status=Released}} > > 2. On the Feature page spreadsheet on Google Docs, change the "Yes" in > "Needs Datestamp" to "No." > > This new Feature template string will add the time and date information to > the page automatically. 3. drop the old-style "== Current status ==" section, with its "Last updated" line. The one thing worse than no information is conflicting information... > > If, along the way, you find features that have been deprecated, or feature > pages that are duplicates, these pages should be cleaned up as well. > Ideally, this should not take too much time for each individual, and the > effort will be a big step towards documentation consistency on the oVirt > site. > > If you have any questions/concerns, send them my way. What does "Feature Template" (column D) mean? I do not suppose that that's the exact opposite of "Needs Template".