Jonah, That's a great point. I think we can do something smart here:
When a user hits https://eclipse.org/documentation/ we could examine the referer, and add some text at the top of the page to indicate the user has requested older docs, with a suggested link to the same doc on the latest install. That will help newer docs rank on search engines, help de-list older docs, and still provide service to the user. We should also verify that we are sending a 301 Permanent redirect, not a 302 Temporary one. If you think this makes sense, I think next step is a bug. Denis On 2019-12-13 9:25 a.m., Jonah Graham wrote: > Hi Fred, > > I think it is great to get rid of the old documentation - indeed the > other day I did a google search and didn't realize I was looking at an > old version of the documentation. > > That leads me to my issue with removing - and I don't have a solution, > just a concern. Googling or duckduckgoing many eclipse topics have > help.eclipse.org/kepler <http://help.eclipse.org/kepler> in the > results (some have neon). What is the effect on SEO of just removing > kepler? Will all relevant search results from google just disappear > making it harder to find information until google and the like re-rank > the results higher? > > Almost all the results work if kepler is just replaced with 2019-09 > (or 2019-12 or latest presumably). > > I see in the time that I have been writing the email that > help.eclipse.org/kepler <http://help.eclipse.org/kepler> has > disappeared - the effect that it is harder to find the results because > the search within infocenter is not as good as google. > > Thanks > Jonah > > > > > ~~~ > Jonah Graham > Kichwa Coders > www.kichwacoders.com <http://www.kichwacoders.com> > > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 08:22, Frederic Gurr > <frederic.g...@eclipse-foundation.org > <mailto:frederic.g...@eclipse-foundation.org>> wrote: > > Hi, > > To further streamline our services and reduce maintenance overhead we > will no longer host info centers at https://help.eclipse.org that are > older than two years (or 8 quarterly releases). > > For older releases people will be advised to run the infocenters > locally > by downloading the corresponding Eclipse IDE (Eclipse SDK or EPP > package) from > * https://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/ or > * https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/ > > How to start or stop information center from command line: > * > > https://help.eclipse.org/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Fguide%2Fua_help_setup_infocenter.htm > > People trying to access old infocenter URLs will be forwarded to > https://www.eclipse.org/documentation > > Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. > > Regards, > > Fred > > -- > Frederic Gurr > Release Engineer | Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH > > Annastr. 46, D-64673 Zwingenberg > Handelsregister: Darmstadt HRB 92821 > Managing Directors: Ralph Mueller, Mike Milinkovich, Gaël Blondelle > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org > <mailto:cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org> > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or > unsubscribe from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
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