[Users] Request for Wiki - dates

Bob Doolittle bob at doolittle.us.com
Thu Mar 13 16:53:13 UTC 2014


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out of date.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




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