[Freeipa-users] Old FreeIPA upstream guides removed (WAS: Re: Web UI: Migrated Admins missing action buttons)

[Simo Sorce]

On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 12:51 +0200, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 04/26/2015 08:23 AM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Hi Rob and Dimitri
> >>
> >> Migrating via Replica is the obvious way that I would have gone, had the
> >> FreeIPA /RedHat documentation not suggested the replicas must have the same
> >> version.
> >>
> >> I think the link that put me off from replicating was:
> >>
> >> http://www.freeipa.org/docs/1.2/Installation_Deployment_Guide/en-US/html/sect-Installation_and_Deployment_Guide-Setting_up_Multi_Master_Replication-Creating_the_Replica_Information_File.html
> >>
> >> Looking at the link more closely I now see this applies to version
> >> 1.2 ....., but from the page itself that was not obvious. it would be great
> >> if the version to which the IPA documentation applies was more obvious....
> >> I am sure I am not the only user who enters the documentation via a search
> >> engine.
> > We really need to remove this version 1.x documentation, it is giving too much confusion.
> 
> I agree, this was the last straw. I just did an update to FreeIPA.org mediawiki
> and (besides upgrading to new Mediawiki) replaced the deprecated FreeIPA 1.2.1
> and 2.0.0 guides with a redirection to:
> 
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Upstream_User_Guide
> 
> which contains the reasoning and updated list of deprecated guides and a link
> to the current documentations.
> 
> HTH. If anyone needs the old guides, I can zip them and add as a download to
> Documentation section.

Yes please, leave the guides available for download. People may need
them for historical reasons.

Simo.