so now that drupal 6 is out - which is awesome and all of that - tons of modules, tutorials, themes, code snippets and so on do NOT work on 6, or on older versions (4.7) and so there is this awful problem brewing...
excluding forums with detailed q and a, there are countless tutorials and code snippets that are not assigned clearly to specific versions and for which there are few indications of actual date authored beyond assorted 'diff' views (which could mean a lot or a little, but that's a user burden, having to click around like that..)
would it be possible or reasonable to request that the userbase (registered) at drupal be given some kind of permission to tag content (tutorials, forum q&a, code snippets, etc) as 'tested and works' or 'doesn't apply' or something to that effect for each major drupal version number?
what i'm thinking is something simple, same categories you see when you post a new forum topic (there are only 5 choices) - user can assign item to one version at a time - and an adjacent column with: works / doesn't work for each version...
that way, slowly, over time, the same user who are willing to spend hours answering questions and pointing to such tutorials and code snippets could also take the time to add a simple set of attributes:
Drupal 4.5x or older: does not work
Drupal 4.6: does not work
Drupal 4.7x: works