On 2/7/06, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
>
> On Feb 7, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Cris Daniluk wrote:
>
> > We talked about this a while ago, but it kind of fizzled out I
> > think... maybe its time to move the documentation into the wiki.
> > WebWork does it in a separate space and exports the space to HTML for
> > each release, so that you have "versioned" documentation. I think it
> > would be worth considering starting a space in the wiki to do just
> > this.
>
> I am still entertaining this idea... How do they handle two branches
> of documentation? What if we have to do releases of say 1.2 and 2.0
> in parallel for some time. I guess once a stable release is branched,
> we can copy the entire space to a separate "branch" space, and keep
> the main doc space up to date with HEAD?
>
I think copying the space would be the way to go. There's page level
versioning, but no space-level tagging/branching that would allow us
to concurrently manage the documentation in the same space. Copying is
pretty simple though, and major releases don't happen often.
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