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:
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 3:41 PM Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com> 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-in...
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(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 6:58 AM Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com>
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 figure out if the post is out of date or not.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
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