GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 168255
Help pages should show version number and date
Last modified: 2006-02-20 14:38:46 UTC
The help pages do currently have neither a user-visible indication of their version (0.6, 0.7, ...) nor the date when they were built (the later would be important for snapshots in between). This information could be added to the header and/or footer of each page, but it should at least be on the frontpage of each language.
I agree. I raised this topic on our mailinglist to provide some sort of metadata for each document. There has been no result so far.
I'll raise this topic up again on our mailinglist, so we can display at least version and date information for http://docs.gimp.org. I think, that the releases shouldn't show this meta data?
Why not? If a user has an arbitrary release and doesn't know if this is the current one (have a look at the NEEDINFO bugs to get an idea of what people don't know about even more vital parts of their systems), a note like "published 2004-12-01" date could at least give them the hint that there might have been an update in the last year. The note can be applied in a subtle way (lighter fg color, smaller font size, ...) so that it doesn't disturb normal usage. If there are suitable headers (either in HTML or maybe even DC), they could be used in addition to make this data available for machines as well.
Yes please. Add version numbers to all pages, no matter if online or in the tarball.
This is now introduced step by step. I think I can resolve this bug as FIXED.