Proposal: additional link "current" on the main page - (especially for the server guide)

[Doug Smythies]

We already do exactly what you are asking, for exactly the reasons you
mentioned. There was some bug report on this a few years ago, and Jeremy
Bicha (I think it was) implemented the fix.

There is already "lts", as Peter mentioned.
There is also "stable".

And they apply to both desktop and serverguide. (which a pending issue for
14.10 when there will not be a serverguide. I.E. "stable for serverguide
will need to point to 14.04 and "stable" for desktop will need to point to
14.10.)

Examples:

https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/index.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/ubuntu-help/index.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/serverguide/index.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/index.html

... Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-doc-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Peter Matulis
Sent: January-10-2014 11:17
To: Guntbert Reiter; ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Proposal: additional link "current" on the main page -
(especially for the server guide)

On 01/10/2014 02:03 PM, Guntbert Reiter wrote:
> Just now I stumbled over a problem for all sites that provide links to
> help.ubuntu.com (like AskUbuntu does in answers):
> 
> As there is no link to a "current" version every link is subject to link
> rot unless the posts are edited regularly. So I propose to add two links
> to http://help.ubuntu.com
> 
>       A. Ubuntu Current pointing to 13.10 at the moment
>       B. Ubuntu LTS Current  -> 12.04 LTS at the moment
> 
> As pages (especially in the server guide) don't vanish on a regular
> basis that could help to keep answers with links to help.ubuntu.com
> usable for a longer time.

I'm not sure we want to do that.  A site might be referring to a
particular version of a guide that may not be relevant or the correct
thing to do in a more recent guide.

But for the Server Guide, 'lts' can be employed:

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/package-management-introduction.html

Since the Server Guide is going 'LTS-only' this is enough.  Still, it's
impossible to force people/sites to use such a placeholder and since
multiple LTS guides will exist at any one time we need to keep
individual version numbers.  Dunno about the Desktop stuff.

- Peter

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