[Bf-docboard] problem with outdate doc mirrors
Kent Mein
mein at cs.umn.edu
Tue Sep 19 16:55:31 CEST 2006
In reply to Joe Eagar (joeedh at gmail.com):
> Kent Mein wrote:
> >In reply to Joe Eagar (joeedh at gmail.com):
> >
> >While I agree that its good to point people to the current documentation,
> >I do not think the solution is to remove the older docs which are what
> >the book we are selling is produced off of. It is also currently the
> >only visible way to download the entire guide with one click.
> >
> I disagree; we can always leave a copy of the old manual a
> download.blender.org with a nice, BIG warning pointing to
> mediawiki.blender.org. We need something to keep users from mistakenly
> using the wrong manual version so much.
I think were on the same page. You said you diasagree but then you said we
could leave a copy of the manual on download.blender.org.
I wasn't saying its a good idea to contact the mirrors and get them pointing
at current material. I was just pointing out that I think we
need to keep a link to the old guide up.
Kent
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