I have an answer as to what happend with 2.14.x onwards (which predates our move to S3 for docs storage) - the process of adding the link to the docs involved manual hand-editing of the HTML of that page. Around when we moved to S3 for the docs, not everyone had the requisite level of access to do this step, so it was frequently skipped (I'll also note that it was actually skipped fairly frequently before that as well, we just usually updated a whole bunch of links in a batch every few releases). Now that we have even less access (upload-only, basically, and only via Jenkins), changes aren't really viable at the moment.
While I don't know the original reasoning, I'll take a stab at answering why we were hosting the old versions of the docs in the first place - many (probably the majority) geoserver users are on old versions, and it is convenient to be able to reference the docs for the exact version of GeoServer one is running. Most other projects do something similar (although they tend to stick to only major versions, which is a bit more manageable). I'll also note that while we no longer host individual versions, we still do host all major versions of the docs, e.g. https://docs.geoserver.org/2.15.x/en/user/ Cheers, Torben On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 3:09 AM Ian Turton <[email protected]> wrote: > Following on to this question Why are some recent versions of Geoserver > not available on https://docs.geoserver.org? > <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68655764/why-are-some-recent-versions-of-geoserver-not-available-on-https-docs-geoserve/68664542#68664542> > I discovered that until the end of the 2.13 release we provided a link to a > hosted version of the user and developer manuals. > > So the question is why? and if it is useful what happened with the 2.14.x > release? or if not should we delete them and may be cut down on the number > of times google takes people to an outdated version? > > Either way the link to the downloads is broken on that page > > Ian > > -- > Ian Turton > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel >
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