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From: "Łukasz Damentko" <rane@g.o>
Subject: Re: Improving organization during beta release
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:22:24 +0200

 1.1

2008/4/28 Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>:
> On 4/27/08, Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o> wrote:
>  > I, personally, hate the whole business of copying stuff to draft/ and then
>  > back again. It's a pain, and there's some risk of forgetting stuff or not
>  > getting it moved or forgetting to delete old files (this happened once or
>  > twice with this release). That's why I dispensed with doing draft/2008.0/
>  > and just went straight to the toplevel dir.
>  [...]
>
> > As I see it, we have a few options:
>  >
>  > 1. Keep the "draft" disclaimer for the beta handbooks, the only live
>  > versions available.
>  > 2. Add listings for "beta" in addition to "latest stable" (really old) in
>  > our index, and link to them.
>  > 3. Add disclaimer to TOC for beta status. Replaces(?) draft disclaimer.
>  > 4. Ditch the draft disclaimer, and instead just consider each handbook a
>  > "release" handbook. We just use the beta stage/file/mirror names. Since the
>  > only thing that's in testing is the CDs, really.
>  >
>  > I'm all for 1, 3, or 4. My personal favorite is 4. Thoughts?
>
>  Mine is 4 as well. The "2008_beta" handbook for GDP is a "production"
>  handbook - the release is publically available and all the disclaimers
>  for the _beta release should automatically apply to its documentation
>  as well.

Yeah. #4 is the best option.
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