I've just opened a pull request implementing my suggestion to use a rel="canonical" tag in the sympy docs build. I believe this should obviate the need to stop serving old documentation.
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/12817 On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Ondřej Čertík <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ms > gid/sympy/CADDwiVDK5f7R21qXRJ-%2Bqrq9mnAkWyXGtryjTwrzN%2Bppr > OZGQA%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/CAJXewOmMsLq9feKaZPRBPAjR3qL6%2BbS2r%2BZuB9rx49Z2qZ4ewA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
