On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 13:36, Vladimir Sitnikov <[email protected]> wrote: > > >If they don't have the content, how can they return matching results? > > What is the point of keeping the old RC site?
It needs to be kept at least for the duration of a VOTE. > Is it really worth discussing? Yes, if we want to prevent staging sites from being indexed while they are present. > Does it help our users if they find Milambers home page rather than > official documentation? Of course not, but if Google indexes the staging site during a vote, the URL may be returned. Users have a habit of re-using old URLs so they may be annoyed if it's gone the next time they try to use it. > Can we just drop it and move on? > > Just in case, robots.txt file needs to be placed at the ROOT folder. > I'm not sure Milamber can put robots.txt as > http://home.apache.org/robots.txt Probably not, but Infra may be happy to help. > Vladimir
