I am +1 for removing them. On Friday, June 23, 2017 at 1:44:21 AM UTC+5:30, Shekhar Prasad Rajak wrote: > > I think it will be good to have big warnings at the top of old doc pages, > as Jason Moore said. > > -- > Shekhar > > On Friday, 23 June 2017 01:22:38 UTC+5:30, Jason Moore wrote: >> >> It seems that many other scipy related packages handle this by giving big >> warnings at the top of old doc pages to manually redirect you. This seems >> to work for me the vast majority of the time, only occasionaly to I get >> stuck on old, for example. Readthedocs does this for your automatically too >> and has a nice sidebar that tells you what version of the docs you are on. >> >> I'm not in favor of removing old docs because it is a real pain for the >> user to build old docs. I'd be more in favor of warnings on old doc pages. >> >> On Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 12:38:28 PM UTC-7, Aaron Meurer 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 >>> >>
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