[Geomoose-users] 2.6 - To Doc? To Purge? To Release?

[Mark Volz]

Dan,

Sorry for the late reply, you had previously asked the group about documentation:

Does anyone have an objection to cleaning up the docs to *only* apply to 2.6?  My motivation is clarity.  2.6 simplifies installation quite a bit but it also deprecates a few functions and I'd rather not have too much "diff docing" going on as it can confuse new users.

Other projects, such as apache keep their documentation in separate subfolders.  I don't know if it would be easy to implement, but maybe something like this would be clear, and useful for people stuck on older versions:

Geomoose.org  (the current version of GeoMOOSE)
Geomoose.org/2.4
Geomoose.org/1.6
Geomoose.org/trunk


Mark Volz
GIS Specialist

From: geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dan Little
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 9:19 AM
To: GeoMOOSE Users List
Subject: [Geomoose-users] 2.6 - To Doc? To Purge? To Release?

Hello List,

We are getting *very* comfortable with the status of the code for the new GeoMoose 2.6 release.

A demo is available here:
- http://www.geomoose.org/demo/geomoose.html

The current state of the documentation is here:
- http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/

A relevant change log is here:
- http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/releases/2.6.html

Currently, the docs contain a substantial amount of legacy instructions from older versions of GeoMoose.  We have moved to a versioned documentation system and the old docs will be preserved here:
- http://www.geomoose.org/2.4/

"geomoose.org/" really just points to the latest stable documentation.

Does anyone have an objection to cleaning up the docs to *only* apply to 2.6?  My motivation is clarity.  2.6 simplifies installation quite a bit but it also deprecates a few functions and I'd rather not have too much "diff docing" going on as it can confuse new users.

We will be dropping an RC1 pending a few tickets.  Most of the docs will continue to apply but we are also looking for volunteers who are unafraid of writing docs and looking at some code.

Thanks for any input!

-Duck




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