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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Info Center for Neon.3
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> On 13. Apr 2017, at 07:52, Frederic Gurr <frederic.gurr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have to disagree on that one. I'm pretty sure that quite a lot of
> people rely on documentation for old releases.
Frederic, I'm basically challenging two things:
1) How different and relevant really is old documentation?
- I don't really by into the "misleading" or "confusing" argument
- API/JavaDoc as well as plug-in development doc is the same
- discovering features and api in newer doc could lead to additional motivation for adopting newer versions
2) Spending valuable Foundation resources on things only a small subset of people need
- IMHO IT time would be better invested focusing on a reliable infrastructure and services for projects and committers.
- If there are commercial interests in providing old documentation, companies should be able to come up with options themselves.
- (Commercial) products based on RCP/IDE rarely rely on help.eclipse.org - they either host or ship their own help.
- Help is (always was) included in old versions of Eclipse.
If I recall, the goal of help.eclipse.org was to have a public service committers/developers/contributors could link/refer to when helping other users. IMHO it's also a valuable source when searching/researching something.
Thus, in the interest of keeping things simple and being pragmatic, I suggest to only host the latest documentation on help.eclipse.org.
-Gunnar