Well, that made me sad (and confused) yesterday when I suddenly couldn't find docs via either djangoproject.com OR Google for some topics for 1.4 (we're in the process of upgrading a large and crufty codebase from 1.4 to 1.8 via 1.6).
Please at least don't eliminate the readthedocs versions in favor of downloads -- searchability is extremely important for those of us trying to work with older codebases and bring them up to date! On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 11:11:00 PM UTC-5, Tim Graham wrote: > > 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/fcd25f52-5614-4cea-86ea-fb6963d3334a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
