Version references in documentation

[Geert Janssens]

On Monday 19 July 2010, Thomas Bullock wrote:
> Geert and others,
> 
> The discussion about version references in code for soon to be reached 2.4
>  makes me realize I need to find out the conventional wisdom regarding
>  version references in documentation.
> 
> Recent emails mentioned that the existing documentation is last current for
>  version 1.8.  Current stable is 2.2.9 and soon to be 2.4 in the not
>  distant future, it seems to me it would be useful to indicate the version
>  number on at least the "how-to-use-feature" instructions.  Some present
>  features are not even documented yet from remarks made in the user and
>  developer's lists.
> 
> Has this idea been considered and rejected?  If so, can anyone share the
>  reasoning behind that position?
> 
As far as I know it hasn't been considered yet.

I think the idea was to have a set of documentation per release, but this 
didn't work out for 2.2.

I'm not sure what the best way to deal with this is.

Geert

P.S. I'm in holidays now, so I won't be following the list regularly for a 
couple of weeks.