Manual and Guide Versions in the documentation

[Tom Bullock]

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Message: 8

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:50:20 -0700

From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>

Subject: Website Links

Also, the online manual and guide seem to be for 2.0; it should be 
updated to 2.2.

Regards,

John Ralls

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John,

Your comment raises the question: What is the process/method that 
documentation version reporting should follow?

Looking at the little I have been working on in the Guide, the top-level 
NEWS module shows a history of version changes ending at version 2.0.1 
dated 10/08/2006. Before that, leading up to that point,  there is a 
trail of version changes and implementation dates (I infer) with a brief 
comment about reason for entry.

Since the documentation seems to be behind installation of new features, 
is there a way to identify the features added since the last point at 
which the documentation did match the feature install? If that can be 
figured out, then that provides a "to-do" list for documentation updates 
(I assume). It also would suggest the order that patches should be 
added, if documenting in the order of oldest to newest feature first.

Your thoughts and anyone else's experience would be much appreciated to 
define the scope of what is needed.

Thanks.

Tom