Re: [Users] Request for Wiki - dates

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com&gt; > To: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 6:53:13 PM > Subject: [Users] Request for Wiki - dates > > Hi, > > As most are aware, there's a lot of information on the Ovirt Wiki that's > out of date. In spite of our best efforts, that will probably always be > true - it's the nature of Wikis. > > When I look for information on our Wiki, I never know where the most > current information is. > > I think it would be really helpful if someplace on each Wiki page was a > useful date to let us know the currency of the info. Probably the most > useful date is last-modified, although creation date might also be > useful. Maybe we could even map/display the date to the version number > of whatever the current stable release was at the time for context > (sometimes the content of a page calls out a particular version it's > addressing, but a lot of the time it does not). > > Just as an example, I want to find out about migrating my existing > configuration to self-hosted, using 3.4 RC2. A google search shows the > following links (in order shown): > > http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine > http://www.ovirt.org/Migrate_to_Hosted_Engine > http://www.ovirt.org/Hosted_Engine_Howto > ... > > I'm sure the Features page is ancient at this point. It's hard to tell > about the 2nd page. > > Of course the date a page was last modified doesn't directly indicate > how correct/current the information is, but there's a correlation. > Knowing the date would be useful in making a judgment. It might even > help the task of identifying and cleaning up obsolete pages. > > Easy to do? > > -Bob > Hi Bob, I'm not against it and I'm aware of the fact that pages tend to become out of date. Since every page has a history as you can see in the attached, adding another date seems needles. What do you think?