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Cassandra Targett commented on SOLR-13571:
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I'm not totally against the idea of having a "latest", but I don't quite get
why it can't be a redirect? My gut reaction is that it further complicates the
release process, and since I'm pretty much the only one who ever does it (with
one recent exception), I'd like to be very sure that additional steps are
necessary. I'd be more likely to get on board if you were able to spell out the
specific changes to the release process that this would cause.
Maybe it would be simpler to ask Infra to just change that big list of
redirects to go to one single page that says "You have a link to the old
version of the Ref Guide, here's where the latest versions are." Or just have
it go to https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/. I mean, it's the internet -
stuff moves and life pretty much goes on.
Related to that idea, we need to institute a proper 404 page and redirect rule
for it.
There are also a large number of duplicated files in each release - CSS, fonts,
images. I have been recently thinking I'd like to restructure everything so we
stop uploading things that are very unlikely to change from release-to-release,
but that is way beyond the scope here, and I don't have any concrete ideas
there yet.
I think it's worth asking if the value we'd get here is worth the effort of
more steps to the process and more duplication of content. It's been 3 years
since we moved. I agree that having the 6.6 Guide rank highest is not good. But
perhaps we can fix that in a simpler way?
> Make recent RefGuide rank well in Google
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> Key: SOLR-13571
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13571
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
> Components: documentation
> Reporter: Jan Høydahl
> Priority: Major
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> Spinoff from SOLR-13548
> The old Confluence ref-guide has a lot of pages pointing to it, and all of
> that link karma is delegated to the {{/solr/guide/6_6/}} html ref guide,
> making it often rank top. However we'd want newer content to rank high. See
> these comments for some first ideas.
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