On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:38 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.
It would be nice to be able to access the old documentation online. Say you have some older version in your conda environment that you use, or in Ubuntu. I like Jason's suggestion to have a big fat warning at the top. Perhaps it can be removed from http://docs.sympy.org, but moved somewhere else, but still make it available? Ondrej -- 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/CADDwiVDK5f7R21qXRJ-%2Bqrq9mnAkWyXGtryjTwrzN%2BpprOZGQA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
