Re: #852 - stop google from indexing old docs

2009-12-17 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:07:20PM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: Should I add an item to the Major release checklist about this? See the attached patch. Yes please. In general, feel free to dump anything that seems potentially useful into the CG. If it's a section aimed at newbies (like CG 1),

#852 - stop google from indexing old docs

2009-12-16 Thread Mark Polesky
This should be trivial to fix. I would do it but I can't figure out from the sources how `robots.txt' is generated. IIUC (correct me if I'm wrong), only the following rules need to be followed: 1) The only valid locations for blank lines are *above* a User-agent line and below the last

Re: #852 - stop google from indexing old docs

2009-12-16 Thread Mark Polesky
Graham Percival wrote: Huh, I didn't reliaze we kept the old unstable directories around; they're not listed on http://lilypond.org/documentation anybody mind if I delete the unstable doc dirs? I might mind, but I don't think I'd be able to give any good reason why. I think it's kinda neat

Re: #852 - stop google from indexing old docs

2009-12-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 01:12:16AM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Huh, I didn't reliaze we kept the old unstable directories around; they're not listed on http://lilypond.org/documentation anybody mind if I delete the unstable doc dirs? I might mind, but I don't

Re: #852 - stop google from indexing old docs

2009-12-16 Thread Graham Percival
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Mats Bengtsson mats.bengts...@ee.kth.se wrote: Graham Percival wrote: Note that if anybody wants to do serious archeological work, they can just grab git Yes! Is this a vote in favor of removing the v1.9 docs from the website, and leaving v1.8 and v2.0

Re: #852 - stop google from indexing old docs

2009-12-16 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Disallow: /doc/v1.9/ Huh, I didn't reliaze we kept the old unstable directories around; they're not listed on  http://lilypond.org/documentation anybody mind if I delete the unstable doc dirs? IIRC it is a

Re: #852 - stop google from indexing old docs

2009-12-16 Thread Mark Polesky
Graham Percival wrote: True, although it would be simple to have doc/stable/ doc/devel/ doc/archive/ That's better. Oh, we'll keep the stable docs. I just don't think the old *unstable* docs are worth having online. Is it really such a burden to keep the old docs on the lilypond.org

Re: #852 - stop google from indexing old docs

2009-12-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: Disallow: /doc/v1.9/ Huh, I didn't reliaze we kept the old unstable directories around; they're not listed on http://lilypond.org/documentation anybody mind if I delete the

Re: #852 - stop google from indexing old docs

2009-12-16 Thread Mark Polesky
Should I add an item to the Major release checklist about this? See the attached patch. I'll apply it if you guys think it's a good idea. The alternative is to write some script that generates robots.txt, but that's beyond me. Let me know. - Mark From