Re: more than 1,800 dependent packages: website out of date

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 11:55, Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> wrote:
> > > When will the above website be updated to use the latest manual
> > > information about branches?
> >
> > What do you mean?
> >
> > 1. The manual you are pointing is the released v1.4.0 manual, not the
> > latest one. This v1.4.0 manual is set in stone and is a snapshot
> > of Guix at v1.4.0.
>
> if Guix is using a rolling release model, then maybe it's not an unreasonable 
> expectation that the online manual also follows the latest in the git repo, 
> no?
>
> maybe we should stop prefixing devel/, and start prefixing the releases?

Here is the website:

    https://guix.gnu.org/

On the top, under Download, you have Standard vs Latest.
Under Help, you have "GNU Guix manual 1.4.0" vs "GNU Guix manual (latest)".

You are proposing that https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/ points to the
latest manual.
That https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/ is removed or redirected to
https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/.
And that https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/v1.4.0 points to the frozen
manual of v1.4.0.
Right?

Please note that the manual of the last release (1.4.0) is kept around
only for people installing from released images before they run "guix
pull".

So maybe, we could remove "GNU Guix manual 1.4.0" from the Help
section and just mention it in the Download
(https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/) webpage.

Well, I do not know.

Cheers,
simon