[Users] Request for Wiki - dates

[Doron Fediuck]

----- 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 out of date.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I'm not against it and I'm aware of the fact that pages tend to become out of date.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?

Doron
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