[drupal-docs] Tag handbook pages with major versions

[Benjamin Slade]

Could we implement an interim solution which has a line in the content 
saying something like "Last Updated: 2005-Sep-09   For Drupal Versions 
4.2+".  Not very elegant, but easy to explain/implement/read, and can be 
implemented incrementally.

Maybe someday the book module could be updated to support versioning and 
release labeling of child nodes?   Ie. revisions of a node could be 
associated with a release of the handbook.

Ben Slade

Charlie Lowe wrote:

> Good points. What is the advantage of using taxonomy to tag the pages? 
> Is it just to make it easy--select the term--rather than editing the 
> text and including it in the body? We will be categorizing the pages, 
> but will the resultant taxonomy displays that the tags provide be useful?
>
> puregin wrote:
>
>>
>> On 7 Sep 2005, at 7:37 PM, Charlie Lowe wrote:
>>
>>> Version tagging is a great idea. But before we jump into this,  
>>> there are a few things we ought to talk about:
>>>
>>
>> This begs the question, 'how will tagging be used?'
>>
>>   Do we want to be able to select a Drupal version and see the  
>> handbook corresponding to our selection?
>>
>>   How will book structure and taxonomy interact?
>>
>>   How will 'missing' content be handled?  For example, if there is  
>> no content for 'administering blocks' tagged for 4.6, do we display 
>> a  blank page?  Give a warning and fall back to an earlier version?  
>> How  will book navigation work?
>>
>>   Or perhaps we just want to be able to display all tags associated  
>> with the page.
>>
>>   I guess all of this is to say - I'm a bit uneasy that we're  
>> grasping at tagging to try to impose some external structure on  
>> documentation which is in parts fundamentally lacking in cohesion  
>> (pardon me for saying so).
>>
>> As far as versioning goes, I think it's a great idea.  But 
>> versioning  by tagging seems to be the wrong approach.  How would we 
>> handle  branches?  What about content that is independent of version?
>>
>>     Djun
>>
>>