Ferdinand Soethe wrote: > > However, it wouldn't hurt to add a pointer to the wayback machine in > case somebody wants to look at older version.
Fantastic idea. > I just checked. Unfortunately the last entry there is Mar 29 2005 > (http://web.archive.org/web/20050329023101/http://forrest.apache.org/) > which is about a month before me released 0.7. I checked a few non-ASF sites and the last available archive is always around end March 2005. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.apache.org Perhaps there is a deliberate viewing window ending at thirteen months ago. That makes sense. > But this can be helped for future releases if we just add the > following lines to the documentation publishing task > > - Check out http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://forrest.apache.org to > see if a current version is archived in the wayback machine. > > If not open http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/index.html#crawl_site > and ask for forrest.apache.org to be crawled again. > > (Have done this today) > > With this done we could just add pointers to past stages of > documentation to out version tabs so that people can still have access > to all versions without us having to maintain them. > > So I'd add something like: > > - Open http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://forrest.apache.org and find > the most recent version of forrest.apache.org in the wayback machine. > Add the url to the index page of the versions tab. > > wdyt? I agree. Links direct to svn.apache.org and not viewcvs.cgi would be good too. > > Yes. However i just want to make sure that people > > understand that we are only editing the -dev > > version of the documentation. > > Is that really so. I thought that if we found an error in > documentation or a bug in an old version we would also change the > documentation of the current version. Going away for the weekend. Will answer this bit later. Remind me if i don't. -David
