Hi Aaron, A while back we modified our sphinx theme to add a "canonical" link:
https://github.com/yt-project/yt/blob/master/doc/source/_templates/layout.html#L4 After waiting for the googlebot to reindex our docs, google now seems to do a good job of only linking to our stable docs (which live at yt-project.org/doc). Maybe sympy could do the same? -Nathan On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all. > > I would like input from the broader SymPy community here. Right now, > at http://docs.sympy.org/ we have versioned docs for each version > going back to 0.6.7, e.g., http://docs.sympy.org/0.7.3/index.html. > > I am proposing to remove these. The only docs that would be on the > docs site are http://docs.sympy.org/latest/ (the default) and > http://docs.sympy.org/dev/ (built automatically from master). I am > undecided if existing versioned docs pages should be setup to redirect > to latest, provide a message, or just 404. > > Two reasons why I want to do this: > > - Empirically, many users end up on old docs pages, without > intentionally going there. Google search likes to return search > results from old docs pages. We have attempted to use the webmaster > tools to fix this, but just playing around with some random search > terms, it seems they still appear in the top of the results (e.g., > "sympy ln" gives 0.7.1 docs as the first result). > > - This gives the false impression that we support older versions. We > do not support any version of SymPy other than the latest version. We > do not make backport releases, except in extreme situations. > > I am looking for feedback on this, whether you think it's a good idea, > a bad idea, or any suggestions. > > Aaron Meurer > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6J0hZT3QVQpBaiEJgebb4nMaVtJG5sWB2gFF_p8umdi1Q%40mail. > gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAJXewO%3DjaNSGYzvfCfBNV1SOTsQOsD2NREp08CnCrNYNSm4R0g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
