On Wed, May 29, 2019 21:53:19 +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote: > <snip> > > It is important to note too that the Fedora Magazine is really a blog / news > source, not documentation. The target audience of the magazine does not make this distinction. I wish they did, but it appears that as far as they are concerned, they are both simply official sources of information. > Do users expect to read an article that is several years old and have > instructions in that still work? If they find the article via an internet search, not only do they read them, they ask why documented information does not work: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/dhcp-does-not-recognise-mac-address-of-interface/1290/11?u=franciscod As you,'ll see there, this led me to file this ticket with docs: https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/docs-fp-o/issue/116 > Would we then have to update say all the old Release Announcements to > say this is an old version that has been EOL'ed? We do something of the sort already: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-28-end-of-life/ > While this would be something nice to have, IMHO keeping old articles > up-to-date should definitely have a much lower priority than creating new, > fresh, content. Sure. > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 5:26 AM Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 6:58 AM Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > In posts related to tools, should we start including what versions of the > > tools (and the Fedora release) the article refers to as a way to make > > users more aware? Would that work? > > > That's a great idea. Then at least people have some context clues to > figure out if the post is out of date or not. Is this doable, though? -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London
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