[documentation] Where do old handbook pages go to die?

[Steven Peck]

The vast majority of things deleted or removed are done so for very
good reasons.

Conflicting information causes anger and drama in a large amount of
forum support request including complaining and attacking.
Conflicting and outdated information pollutes drupal.org search
results causing more anger and drama in the forums.
Outdated information is often removed because it is insecure or so
poorly coded that it caused performance issues which resulted in for
said anger and drama in the forums.

I am very tired of anger and drama.

We do not support older versions.  Older versions confuse things.  If
people fail to update, then I will ruthlessly prune.  Broken links
causes way less anger and drama as people aren't trying to do things
that are broken or will break their site.

Updating instructions stay as there are people that have had a need to
update from older versions and not having them would cause promblems.
In fact, unless someone moved it there should be an archive labeled
'upgrading older versions' somewhere where the last unsupported
version gets moved into.

Steven


On Feb 4, 2008 9:58 AM, Michael Prasuhn <mike at mikeyp.net> wrote:
> I agree. I've spent a surprising amount of time searching archive.org
> for stuff I've seen on drupal.org but not been able to find anymore,
> only to confirm that it had been deleted or moved.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Feb 4, 2008, at 6:09 AM, Benjamin Melançon wrote:
>
> > I think we should not ever delete pages and break links and cut off
> > the disturbing number of 4.6 users out there, but move pages to a
> > deprecated book, or section of the book, and that is the only place
> > (aside from old forum posts etc.) that they are referred to on
> > Drupal.org.
>
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