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From: Jose Luis Rivero <yoswink@g.o>
Subject: Re: Proposal: remove 'last updated' date from rendered page
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 22:14:03 +0200

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On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 07:14:44PM -0700, Josh Saddler wrote:
> Hi guys. I dunno about you, but I'm getting tired of folks bashing our docs 
> as being "out of date", "stale", "old", or "inaccurate" just because of the 
> displayed date of the last update.
>
> I propose that we keep the date inside the document code, for our own 
> internal purposes, but remove it from the final rendered page.

As swift has said in previous posts, keep the last change date visible is 
a quite useful while reading documentation.

>
> As you know, the date displayed has little relevance to when we last 
> actually touched-up the document, given our internal date bump policy.
>

Or I'm missing something or the date should reflect the date of the last
doc version.

>
> So. There's my proposal. Thoughts?
>

What about change 'Updated' to 'Last Change' being 'Last Change' a link 
which point to an entry in the FAQ explaining what is the last change
and why it doesn't imply that the doc is out of date.

Regards.

-- 
Jose Luis Rivero <yoswink@g.o>
Gentoo/Doc Gentoo/Alpha



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