Pending Release 13.04 End Of Life

[Doug Smythies]

On 2014.01.21 11:11 Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 21.01.2014 21:04, Doug Smythies wrote:
>>  [snip]
>> 
>> On 2014.01.21 10:46 Lars Noodén wrote:
>> 
>>> What is the reason for deleting it, if 12.10 and the others are going to
>>> be kept?
>> 
>> The others are not at EOL (End Of Life) yet.
>> They will be deleted when they reach EOL.
>> 
>> See also: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
>> 
>> And in the case of 10.04, observe that the
>> Desktop portion of it has reached EOL and has
>> been deleted. Only the Serverguide portion
>> is still there.

> These are the last and only copies of these documents, for anybody.

That is not true. Anybody with a launchpad account can re-create
any version of help.ubuntu.com any time they desire by making a local
copy of the launchpad branch and reverting it to whenever (whatever
version).

> They have value that they show the state of Ubuntu at various stages in
> time and document progress over time.

>  As far as I know, they are not in
> the way nor a maintenance burden.

Actually, the work goes quicker when the active portion of the enormous
branch is smaller.

>  I would propose that these be kept
> read-only.

If the result is group consensus, then O.K.

Reference:
https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/ubuntu-docs/help.ubuntu.com 

... Doug