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My question is best explained with an example:

  • The Skype panel icon has bothered lots of folks, who have been asking about how to remove itwho have been asking about how to remove it since at least 10.04.

  • The problem with the accepted/most-upvoted current answer is that it works only for 11.04 and while you can follow the steps in there, they do not work for 12.04 (or 11.10). There is a 12.04 answer lower on the page though.

  • In such a situation, to make life easier for most readers who are presumably on 12.04, would it to be appropriate to "fork" this into a question/answer specifically dealing with 12.04?

    • If so, when should such forked Q/As be merged back into the "canonical" question:
      1. x amount of time after the next release, or
      2. Longer if the version being dealt with is an LTS?

My question is best explained with an example:

  • The Skype panel icon has bothered lots of folks, who have been asking about how to remove it since at least 10.04.

  • The problem with the accepted/most-upvoted current answer is that it works only for 11.04 and while you can follow the steps in there, they do not work for 12.04 (or 11.10). There is a 12.04 answer lower on the page though.

  • In such a situation, to make life easier for most readers who are presumably on 12.04, would it to be appropriate to "fork" this into a question/answer specifically dealing with 12.04?

    • If so, when should such forked Q/As be merged back into the "canonical" question:
      1. x amount of time after the next release, or
      2. Longer if the version being dealt with is an LTS?

My question is best explained with an example:

  • The Skype panel icon has bothered lots of folks, who have been asking about how to remove it since at least 10.04.

  • The problem with the accepted/most-upvoted current answer is that it works only for 11.04 and while you can follow the steps in there, they do not work for 12.04 (or 11.10). There is a 12.04 answer lower on the page though.

  • In such a situation, to make life easier for most readers who are presumably on 12.04, would it to be appropriate to "fork" this into a question/answer specifically dealing with 12.04?

    • If so, when should such forked Q/As be merged back into the "canonical" question:
      1. x amount of time after the next release, or
      2. Longer if the version being dealt with is an LTS?
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My question is best explained with an example:

  • The Skype panel icon has bothered lots of folks, who have been asking about how to remove it since at least 10.04.

  • The problem with the accepted/most-upvoted current answer is that it works only for 11.04 and while you can follow the steps in there, they do not work for 12.04 (or 11.10). There is a 12.04 answer lower on the page though.

  • In such a situation, to make life easier for most readers who are presumably on 12.04, would it to be appropriate to "fork" this into a question/answer specifically dealing with 12.04?

    • If so, when should such forked Q/As be merged back into the "canonical" question:
      1. x amount of time after the next release, or
      2. Longer if the version being dealt with is an LTS?

My question is best explained with an example:

  • The Skype panel icon has bothered lots of folks, who have been asking about how to remove it since at least 10.04.

  • The problem with the accepted/most-upvoted current answer is that it works only for 11.04 and while you can follow the steps in there, they do not work for 12.04 (or 11.10).

  • In such a situation, to make life easier for most readers who are presumably on 12.04, would it to be appropriate to "fork" this into a question/answer specifically dealing with 12.04?

    • If so, when should such forked Q/As be merged back into the "canonical" question:
      1. x amount of time after the next release, or
      2. Longer if the version being dealt with is an LTS?

My question is best explained with an example:

  • The Skype panel icon has bothered lots of folks, who have been asking about how to remove it since at least 10.04.

  • The problem with the accepted/most-upvoted current answer is that it works only for 11.04 and while you can follow the steps in there, they do not work for 12.04 (or 11.10). There is a 12.04 answer lower on the page though.

  • In such a situation, to make life easier for most readers who are presumably on 12.04, would it to be appropriate to "fork" this into a question/answer specifically dealing with 12.04?

    • If so, when should such forked Q/As be merged back into the "canonical" question:
      1. x amount of time after the next release, or
      2. Longer if the version being dealt with is an LTS?
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When is "forking" a version-specific canonical question for the latest release acceptable?

My question is best explained with an example:

  • The Skype panel icon has bothered lots of folks, who have been asking about how to remove it since at least 10.04.

  • The problem with the accepted/most-upvoted current answer is that it works only for 11.04 and while you can follow the steps in there, they do not work for 12.04 (or 11.10).

  • In such a situation, to make life easier for most readers who are presumably on 12.04, would it to be appropriate to "fork" this into a question/answer specifically dealing with 12.04?

    • If so, when should such forked Q/As be merged back into the "canonical" question:
      1. x amount of time after the next release, or
      2. Longer if the version being dealt with is an LTS?