[documentation] 100 comments on Install documentation missing

[Kieran Lal]

On Jan 9, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Steven Peck wrote:

> Kieren.  I went through those.  There were only 70 at the time.   
> Over half were support questions and threads over 2 years old.  I  
> was able to identify that almost all of the rest on that page had  
> already been gradually incorporated in the existing install.txt or  
> upgrade.txt.  I read each indivdidual comment at least twice and  
> was amazed that there wasn't more useful text.  Some were opinions,  
> some rants, some random comments with no relavence any longer.   
> There was nothing there that had not already been addressed there  
> or elsewhere.  I talked over some comments with some folks in  
> channel as well before removing.
>
> I did add this line 'After you successfully install Drupal, you  
> will want to perform some basic site configuration starting with  
> the settings menu." here as a result of a few of the comments.  
> http://drupal.org/node/43767

Wow!  Great job I am sure that was a lot of work.

It's great to see the comments page slowly drop down in number.  I  
love crunching the comments on these pages.

Cheers,
Kieran

>
> Hopefully the new intro will help direct people appropriatly.
>
> On a related note.  The one unanswered part of several questions  
> that I have to follow up here is that the page is for the CVS build  
> of Drupal, always.  The page in question is php.  It is  
> autogenerated from the cvs.  I think it is time to relabel the page  
> install.txt - cvs.  We can statically include the install.txt file  
> for the specific versions (or link to those branched versions in  
> cvs) install.txt - 4.6.x, install.txt - 4.7.x we 'support' in the  
> handbook now.  That was the one thing I couldn't do
>
> -sp
>
> From: documentation-bounces at drupal.org on behalf of Kieran Lal
> Sent: Mon 1/9/2006 5:37 PM
> To: A list for documentation writers
> Subject: [documentation] 100 comments on Install documentation missing
>
> Hi, we are looking for the 100 comments on the Install
> documentation.  All comments are considered valuable and reviewed for
> inclusion into improving the documentation.
>
> Please let us know if you have these comments copied or you
> summarized them and have not shared your notes yet.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieran
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