On 3/1/20 5:10 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi Povilas, > > Povilas Kanapickas writes: > >> Hi Olaf, >> >> On 2/10/20 4:36 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I converted the project's standard from LaTeX to Sphinx. You can find >>> the code at >>> >>> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/standard >>> >>> but I really invite everyone to take a look at the published result at >>> >>> https://sane-project.gitlab.io/standard/master/index.html >> >> This looks great! > > Thanks! > >>> Note that you can access HTML and PDF versions for all tags and branches >>> from that page as well. >>> >>> Please compare that with >>> >>> http://sane-project.org/html/ >>> http://sane-project.org/sane.pdf >>> >>> and what's below >>> >>> http://sane-project.org/sane2/ >>> >>> Should I replace the links on >>> >>> http://sane-project.org/docs.html >>> >>> to point to the Sphinx version? >> >> I think yes. > > Done. > >>> If yes, I also suggest dropping the standard from the sane-backends >>> package and from now on maintain it independently via the `standard` >>> project linked to above. Objections anyone? >> >> I makes sense to maintain the standard separately. We can always link to >> it from a README in the backends repository. > > See backends#254. > >>> What about removing some (notably sane2) or all of the pages that are >>> on our website as of writing? I can fix up any broken links in issues >>> and/or merge requests that may result of any removal if needed. >> >> Makes sense also. I would recommend adding 301 redirects from the old >> content to the new. Perhaps just redirect any HTTP request with URL >> having prefix http://sane-project.org/sane2 to the new location. > > Thanks for the suggestion but the SANE Standard is hosted via GitLab > Pages. That is, it's a *static* site and there's no control over the > server. IIRC there was a note in the GitLab documentation about using > JavaScript to redirect people but that same note recommended against > doing so.
Can we perhaps add a bunch of dummy pages that say something along the lines of "The content has been moved to <here>"? Regards, Povilas
