RE: RFC: gdb web page patch for git conversion

Marc Khouzam
2013-09-06T19:50:39Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org
> [mailto:gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of André Pönitz
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 3:34 PM
> To: Joel Brobecker
> Cc: Stan Shebs; gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: RFC: gdb web page patch for git conversion
>
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 06:09:43AM -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > > My semi-baked plan for the web site redesign, as seen at
> > >
> > > http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/WebsiteRedesign
> > >
> > > includes a git migration.
> >
> > Interesting plan!
> >
> > One of my complaints about the current website is that it's really
> > obscure which version of the GDB documentation is available where,
> > and whether we (the developers) would prefer you to look at the
> > documentation from a release, or from the HEAD.
>
> As a somewhat related, general remark: It would be nice if
> GDB documentation
> tagged new features with the version in which they are first
> implemented.
>
> From a frontend developer's point of view the decision which
> feature should
> to be supported is often driven by what version of GDB common
> distributions
> ship. Having a feature tagged as "new and officially
> supported in version
> x.y.z" is a more robust approach than trying to deduce
> "official" blessing
> from change logs, patches, and NEWS entries.

I second the motion :)

Marc