On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 12:12:55AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> Good evening Guix!
> 
> Nary a literal week goes by that someone doesn't post confusion about this
> or that not being in ‘the manual’, where the manual turns out to be
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html> instead of the one actually
> shipped with their Guix.
> 
> The current solution is pointing them to
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html> and resetting the timer.
> 
> Instead:
> 
> - We should make <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html> the  ‘devel’
> version, and move the stable version to to a versioned  URL like
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.3.0/en/guix.html>.
> 
> - Both manuals should have a gorgeous CSS box at the very top  clearly
> explaining their nature.

Here is an untested patch against guix-maintenance to change the manual
locations. It doesn't take into account any changes needed in the
website itself to add a pointer to the 1.3.0 manual.


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