I see no reason to remove old versions from readthedocs. On 17 February 2016 at 04:22, Felipe Prenholato <philipe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was catch by that change today and found the docs in > http://django.readthedocs.org/en/1.5.x/. > > I wan't to suggest that for documentations that Django will remove from > docs.djangoproject.com and from django.readthedocs.org we keep instead > links to download PDFs / epubs / HTML zips in some place that is easy to > find and so users can download it. Maybe some page like "Older versions" > inside documentation. > > Well, just a thought :). > > Thx, Felipe. > > Felipe Prenholato. > Home page: http://devwithpassion.com | http://chronosbox.org/blog > GitHub: http://github.com/chronossc/ | Twitter: > http://twitter.com/chronossc > LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/in/felipeprenholato/ > > 2016-02-17 2:10 GMT-02:00 Tim Graham <timogra...@gmail.com>: > >> I removed the 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 docs from docs.djangoproject.com today. >> They are still available on readthedocs. I've spent more than a couple >> hours recently debugging some problems related to documentation builds >> there. Some are described in >> https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/issues/627, otherwise are >> related to elasticsearch (timeouts due to indexing so many documents, I >> think). I hope removing old docs versions will help to reduce the >> maintenance overhead of these tasks. Also, a stale link in the docs was >> pointing to a site with adult content. I backported the fix as far back as >> 1.4 today. >> >> On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 11:08:59 AM UTC-4, Florian Apolloner wrote: >>> >>> As long as it doesn't hurt we can keep em there -- remove as soon as >>> they cause a problem ;) >>> >>> On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 4:30:01 PM UTC+2, Tim Graham wrote: >>>> >>>> I just discontinued the 1.3 docs on docs.djangoproject.com, they are >>>> still available on django.readthedocs.org. Do you think we should keep >>>> it there or not? >>>> >>>> On Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 7:45:15 AM UTC-4, Tim Graham wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm in favor of discontinuing older version of the docs. I recently >>>>> fixed the 1.3 documentation builder since there were several complaints, >>>>> but no one has complained about 1.2. >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:32:25 AM UTC-4, Areski Belaid wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Folks, >>>>>> >>>>>> I wanted to open a discussion regarding the following ticket >>>>>> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23042 >>>>>> >>>>>> To summarize briefly, you may notice that we can search doc for >>>>>> Django version 1.2 (for example >>>>>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/search/?q=forms&release=4) but the >>>>>> links in the result won't work. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> As Baptiste (IRC bmispelon) explained on IRC, we may have 2 approach >>>>>> to solve this problem: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1) Fix the docs builder for versions < 1.2 (at the moment the >>>>>> doc-building process is broken on old branches due to different version >>>>>> of >>>>>> Sphinx) >>>>>> >>>>>> 2) Discontinue older Django docs version and decide a policy >>>>>> regarding doc hosting >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> What do you think? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> //Areski >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/8c2638b5-6604-4bd4-b470-9096aee14b69%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/8c2638b5-6604-4bd4-b470-9096aee14b69%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CADdUj3G%3DWaG7G3KJM-yZ_e21UsakW6K5ap3%2Brd1ScOxS8rqQWA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CADdUj3G%3DWaG7G3KJM-yZ_e21UsakW6K5ap3%2Brd1ScOxS8rqQWA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. 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