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

[Martin Kosek]

On 04/27/2015 04:15 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 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.

I agree. I finally found a time slot to zip those and make them available for 
historical reasons on FreeIPA.org.

So, here they are:
http://www.freeipa.org/page/Upstream_User_Guide#Deprecated_Upstream_Guides

They are also linked from "Old Resources" section of Documentation page.

Enjoy!

Martin