[Users] Request for Wiki - dates

[Yedidyah Bar David]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>, "Bob Doolittle" <bob at doolittle.us.com>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>, "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 10:15:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Request for Wiki - dates
> 
> Il 14/03/2014 04:16, Doron Fediuck ha scritto:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob at doolittle.us.com>
> >> To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
> >> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:17:22 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Users] Request for Wiki - dates
> >>
> >>
> >> On 03/13/2014 03:28 PM, Doron Fediuck wrote:
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob at doolittle.us.com>
> >>>> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> >>>> 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 out of date.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?
> >> Hi Doron,
> >>
> >> I was thinking of something very simple - a clear text date on ever page
> >> on the Wiki.
> >>
> >> I can't see anything that looks like your attached picture of menus on
> >> this page, for example:
> >> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine
> >>
> >> Do you have to log in to see that menu? If so, that's not very helpful
> >> to those without accounts...
> >>
> >> -Bob
> >>
> > 
> > Hi Bob,
> > so for that we have the update date:
> > 
> > Current status
> >  Initial POC devel
> >  Last updated: March 13, 2014
> 
> 
> There is an ongoing discussion about adding correct edit dates to all wiki
> pages
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/infra/2014-February/005448.html

Indeed. Last post in that thread [1] is from 3 weeks ago. Any news about that?

[1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/infra/2014-February/005502.html

Best,
-- 
Didi