Hi Povilas, Povilas Kanapickas writes:
> Hi Olaf, > > On 2/10/20 4:36 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I converted the project's standard from LaTeX to Sphinx. You can find >> the code at >> >> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/standard >> >> but I really invite everyone to take a look at the published result at >> >> https://sane-project.gitlab.io/standard/master/index.html > > This looks great! Thanks! >> Note that you can access HTML and PDF versions for all tags and branches >> from that page as well. >> >> Please compare that with >> >> http://sane-project.org/html/ >> http://sane-project.org/sane.pdf >> >> and what's below >> >> http://sane-project.org/sane2/ >> >> Should I replace the links on >> >> http://sane-project.org/docs.html >> >> to point to the Sphinx version? > > I think yes. Done. >> If yes, I also suggest dropping the standard from the sane-backends >> package and from now on maintain it independently via the `standard` >> project linked to above. Objections anyone? > > I makes sense to maintain the standard separately. We can always link to > it from a README in the backends repository. See backends#254. >> What about removing some (notably sane2) or all of the pages that are >> on our website as of writing? I can fix up any broken links in issues >> and/or merge requests that may result of any removal if needed. > > Makes sense also. I would recommend adding 301 redirects from the old > content to the new. Perhaps just redirect any HTTP request with URL > having prefix http://sane-project.org/sane2 to the new location. Thanks for the suggestion but the SANE Standard is hosted via GitLab Pages. That is, it's a *static* site and there's no control over the server. IIRC there was a note in the GitLab documentation about using JavaScript to redirect people but that same note recommended against doing so. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join
