Thanks for your thoughts, folks. > what about > just locking down that space to authorized users and hide it from the > rest of the > world instead?
I think that's perfectly fine. If we put the pages behind a login page, they might still show up in Google though (although I guess it could be as simple as an entry in robots.txt to prevent this). But I'd also like to ensure that the user when trying to go to a page on GEOSDOC doesn't just a see a "Log In To Confluence" page, but instead either gets redirected or is given a note saying that the page is no longer here. What is the best way to accomplish these tasks? Thanks, Mike Pumphrey OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 We elected to leave up all of the historical content in order to help 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
