Re: [boost] Updating getting started?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-09 15:07:59

Daniel James wrote:

> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> I presume it still lives in more/getting_started.html. Ok, good.
> 
> You need to edit more/getting_started/*.rst.

OK.

>>  If I change
>> it, will the changed version appear either boost.org, or beta.boost.org ?
>>  
>>> The answer's no, the same for all documentation included in the
>>> distribution.
>>>     
>>
>> Ok. Can this be changed, please?
>>   
> 
> It's not in my control. But it certainly shouldn't be updated from
> trunk, since that documents trunk and not the current release. That
> would prevent updating it for any new changes that don't apply to 1.35.
> 
> I suppose we could update the site documentation from the release
> branch, if that is considered acceptable by the release manager.
> Although that could end up with the situation we had before when there
> were basically three different versions of the website - one in trunk,
> one in release, and one online. These were often out of sync and a pain
> to merge. The new website organisation wasn't designed out of malice.

>From my standpoint, there should be a way to clarify getting started so
that users of the current release can see updated copy on the website.
If any fixes will appear only in the next release, they won't benefit users
now.

- Volodya