General question to all lurking in this thread...

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:48 AM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
> [Note switch to docs@]
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
>>
>> The 1.3 and 2.0 docs died due to lack of interest, not due to policy. And,
>> at some point (like after the 2.6 release, for example) we'll want to go
>> back and add some rel canonical stuff in the headers to point to the newest
>> version.
>
> We already *have* all that, and have for a long time since 2.4 release.
> After EOL, we added the stronger caveat in human-readable form.
>
> So given the software is EOL, and that users can toggle between
> versions both stale and current and future, do we want the 2.2 form
> of the documentation to be crawled and indexed anymore?
>
>> I'm just saying that I think it's fine to let them die a natural death,
>> rather than killing them by policy.
>
> Well, here's my question, when did we get around to this patch on 1.3
> and 2.0?
>
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
>  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head>
> -<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
> +<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
> http-equiv="Content-Type" /><meta content="noindex, nofollow"
> name="robots" />
>  <!--
>          XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>                This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT
>
> I have this ready-to-commit on the generator and generated content,
> and I believe that is the last necessary change to "retire" an old rev
> of the documentation. It is still unlocked and, as with 1.3, could still
> be updated to repair broken links, etc.
>
> Opinions on this patch to httpd.a.o/docs/2.2/?

The only negative consequence I can think of would be some phrase
or directive or directive arg keyword removed from 2.4.x that was not
present in 2.2.x docs. Can we think of one?

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