On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Mike Pumphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. I'd like to bring up the subject of shutting down our old > documentation, hosted at: > > http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC > > This was the location of the original GeoServer documentation, before the > migration to Sphinx (with projects now hosted at http://docs.geoserver.org). > We elected to leave up all of the historical content in order to help > migration/transition. It has now been almost two years, so I think it's high > time to get tough with ourselves, and force people to migrate to the new > content. > > There are other, more pragmatic reasons to do this. Do a search for > "geoserver shapefile" on Google, and you get: > > http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/User+Tutorial+Shapefile > > This page has screenshots from GeoServer _1.5.1_. Users should be instead > looking here: > > > http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/gettingstarted/shapefile-quickstart/index.html > > Or maybe here: > > http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/data/shapefile.html > > Try searching for pretty much anything involving GeoServer, and chances are > that it points to the old documentation. That's unfortunate, because we've > all done a lot of great work to produce updated quality documentation, so > people should see it. > > By the way, I'm not talking about the GEOS space, which should remain. The > space contains not only the download pages and the GSIPs, but also the > homepage itself. > > > So I am proposing the following: > > * Redirect (301) users who navigate to the old documentation to > http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/index.html or maybe just > http://docs.geoserver.org > * Take down the GEOSDOC space (storing it somewhere safe so we can extract > information we find we need). > > Thoughts?
I think the idea is sound, from a user point of view it's better not to end up reading the old docs that might be outdated. I'm however not certain we ported over all the info from the old docs.... what about just locking down that space to authorized users and hide it from the rest of the world instead? Cheers Andrea -- Ing. Andrea Aime Technical Lead GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584962313 fax: +39 0584962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
