Re: [PATCH, doc] Fix PR documentation/44016

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> I like it. ?Ok, and thanks!
> would it make more sense for the docs in the 4.4 branch to link to the 
> 4.4 status page, and the docs in the 4.5 branch to link to the 4.5 
> status page?

Yes, but -- that's yet another item for the release managers and yet
another source for mistakes or omissions.  As have happened for the
last couple of releases as Ralf noticed.

> Those status pages will probably remain valid, and relate to the c++0x 
> support implemented in that branch, whereas the unversioned page is 
> going to be changed to track support in the trunk, and at some point 
> when the "0x" becomes "11" (or whatever) that page might disappear 
> completely, breaking the links.

Did you look at the unversioned page?  I did before acking the patch
and it has nice pointers to the individual pages at a prominent place.

Also, I have a policy of not arbitrarily breaking links and so will
make sure we have proper redirection in place (at least that's the
plan ;-).  And I kind of like the idea of giving users an easy way
to compare the different versions and gently pull them towards a later
one.

That said, I don't want to approve this is there is strong disagreement.
Another way of addressing the original bug report would be adjust 
htdocs/branching.html to ensure this reference is going to be updated
in the future.

Gerald