How about something like what OMG! Ubuntu does? After a certain time (one year?) they add a disclaimer at the top of the article. Just a simple "this article is old, take it with a grain of salt". See this for example: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/ubuntu-15-04-download-new-features On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 3:41 PM Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 figure out if the post is out of date or not.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 > _______________________________________________ > Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
