Our docs are hosted statically on GitHub pages, so I believe the only way to do redirects is like we do currently https://github.com/sympy/sympy_doc/blob/d8a3a2c81f4f26757f0be8699b7c3881b9b4147d/index.html.
Aaron Meurer On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Francesco Bonazzi <franz.bona...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301 > > > On Thursday, 22 June 2017 15:38:28 UTC-4, Aaron Meurer 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. >> >> Aaron Meurer > > -- > 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 sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > 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/81d8514e-9fa3-44e4-92e7-296d06973a8a%40googlegroups.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 sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. 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/CAKgW%3D6J3R26YLzWVZUfaza9qTSUOS-LG_1%3DNNRQ9Rmunvzv92A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
