Go documentation needs versioning (especially language spec)

[gopherbot]

by autophile:

I'm playing around with creating a Netbeans module for Go language support. As such, I'm
using 
the language spec from here: http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html

Unfortunately, this document has no version number, so I would not be able to indicate
in my 
module what version of the Go language is supported, nor would I be able to determine if
the 
language spec changed.

Please version the documentation!

[rsc]

Comment 1:

Thanks, good suggestion.  As a workaround for now you can use
the date of the spec.  The revision control tools we are using will
let you see what has changed since a given date.

Status changed to Accepted.

[gopherbot]

Comment 2 by debrabander:

Not just a document version number is desirable, but also detailed "ChangeLog" on the
golang.org website of any modifications made to the Go language. If you upgrade the
toolchain, you'll notice these language modifications the hard way by compilation
errors. Or you'll have to use the revision tools for diffs and commit messages on the
source code and documentation...

[rsc]

Comment 3:

I thought more about this, and using the revision tools doesn't seem
like such a terrible thing.  That's what they're for.
I think we should add a date to the spec, but the revision control
system is a perfectly good versioning system and authoritative 
record of what changed.
Assigning to gri for adding of the date or other consideration.

Owner changed to [email protected].

[rsc]

Comment 4:

Labels changed: added documentation.

[griesemer]

Comment 5:

This issue was closed by revision e8e4987.

Status changed to Fixed.