On Jul 21, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > Steve Atkins wrote: >> If http://postgresql.org/docs/9.0/* were to 302 redirect to >> http://postgresql.org/docs/current/* while 9.0 is the current release (and >> similarly for 9.1 and so on) I suspect we'd find many more links to current >> and fewer links to specific versions after a year or two. >> > > True, but this would leave people with no way to bookmark a permanent link to > whatever is the current version, which will represent a regression for how > some people want the site to work.
Well, they'd still be able to link to the specific version with ../9.0/.. and have that link to the version 9.0 docs forever, just not as easily as a copy/paste. That's the whole point, though, to make the wanted behaviour easier than the unwanted. > Also, this and the idea to add a "this is an old version" note to each old > page will end up increasing work for the already overloaded web team managing > the site. Neither are unreasonable ideas, there's just some subtle bits to > making either happen that would need to be worked out, and I don't know who > would have time to work through everything involved. Yup. I'm not convinced it's a great idea either - but it's about the only thing that'd get people to link to ../current/.. by default. Cheers, Steve -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
