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

[Jim Klassen]

Also, old versions are always available in SVN.

On Apr 17, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Dan Little wrote:

> Mark, I think you'll find in the 2nd paragraph of my original email that we are keeping version-tagged docs.
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> From: Mark Volz <MarkVolz at co.lyon.mn.us>
> To: Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com>; GeoMOOSE Users List <geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org> 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 11:48 AM
> Subject: RE: [Geomoose-users] 2.6 - To Doc? To Purge? To Release?
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> Dan,
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> Sorry for the late reply, you had previously asked the group about documentation:
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> Geomoose.org  (the current version of GeoMOOSE)
> Geomoose.org/2.4
> Geomoose.org/1.6
> Geomoose.org/trunk 
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> Mark Volz
> GIS Specialist
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> 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?
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> Hello List,
>  
> We are getting *very* comfortable with the status of the code for the new GeoMoose 2.6 release.
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> A demo is available here:
> - http://www.geomoose.org/demo/geomoose.html
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> The current state of the documentation is here:
> - http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/
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> A relevant change log is here:
> - http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/releases/2.6.html
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> 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/
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> "geomoose.org/" really just points to the latest stable documentation.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks for any input!
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> -Duck
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