Am 20.07.2012 22:07, schrieb Phil Schaffner: > Ned Slider wrote on 07/20/2012 03:12 PM: >> One issue I see here is that the original howto was written for CentOS-5 >> with dovecot 1.x. >> >> The OP here is clearly using CentOS-6, which uses dovecot 2.x and no >> surprises for guessing that there are a few incompatibilities between >> the config files for dovecot 1 and 2. >> >> Personally, I'd suggest forking the original article and maintaining >> separate versions for CentOS-5 and CentOS-6, or have separate sections >> within the article for CentOS-5 and CentOS-6 where they differ. >> >> To the best of my knowledge this list never did agree a mechanism for >> handling documentation differences between product versions. The danger >> is that if we keep editing changes for CentOS-6 into docs for CentOS-5 >> we will end up with broken useless docs. >> >> How do others feel this type of situation should best be handled? > > I'd say it should be decided on a case-by-case basis, but perhaps some > general guidelines would be helpful. If differences can be easily > handled by a note here and there then a separate page is probably not > justified. If differences are substantial between major releases, then > a fork of a new page for the later release may be the best approach. > > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs > First: Sorry for me not paying attention when editing the articel. second: +1 to the approach suggested by Phil Christoph _______________________________________________ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
