From FE-128:

Sarah Maddox [Atlassian] - 13/Nov/07 12:28 AM

Here's a note about release management, and linking to specific doc spaces to get the docs corresponding to a particular release. We discussed an option today (see below) but we decided it was technically easier to use a different solution (see attached email from Tim). So I'm just adding the notes here, in case we might like to look at them someday. A nice way to do it would be:

• At the top of the Help-URL reference file, store two base URLs: One is version-specific (e.g. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE014) and one is the 'main' space (e.g. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE)
• On start of user session (or some other timeframe) - try to access the version-specific URL.
  • If it gives an error, this probably means that the version-specific space does not yet exist, because the FishEye instance is using the current release. This is a Good Thing and we therefore need to use the main space to get the right docs for this FishEye instance.
  • So then try the main space. If this does not exist, then the CAC server is down. This is an error.
  • If the version-specific URL does exist, this means that the version-specific docs have already been created i.e. this FishEye instance is not the latest release. This is Another Good Thing and we should use the version-specific docs.
• Store the successful base URL as some sort of session variable.