I guess we should somehow make Google aware that we want the docs of the "latest" version of SymPy to be the default search results. A big warning will probably not solve this problem.
I support a total removal and a permanent redirection to the latest version. On Thursday, 22 June 2017 15:38:28 UTC-4, 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 > -- 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/9a6815a0-1509-4e36-b6a7-8c24cd8cfc28%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
