[Koha-devel] Document revision numbering system

[Nathan Gray]

On 2004-10-31 20:22, Stephen Hedges wrote:
> A google search didn't produce any results that were really helpful.  I
> did see that Gnome documentation is supposed to be numbered according to
> the version of Gnome that is current.  In other words, if a document is
> produced when Gnome version 1.x is the most current, then that document
> version starts with "1" and so forth.  (For example, the first version of
> a document produced when Gnome 2.x is the most current would be version
> 2.0, the next revision would be 2.1, etc., until Gnome version 3.0 is
> released.)  I suppose we could do something similar for Koha.  That would
> change Nick's version 0.1 to 1.0, and the XML version to 1.1, while
> Brooke's Newbie Guide would be version 2.0 right from the start -- which
> seems a little confusing to me.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions and/or strong feelings about a document
> revision numbering system?

I like the idea that documentation is tied to the code it documents, by  
version number.  I am much less interested in how many iterations a document  
has gone through, than I am interested in which version of a page is  
documented.

-kolibrie