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Subject: Re: End of life for 2.0 documentation?
From: Rich Bowen <rbowen () rcbowen ! com>
Date: 2012-07-16 17:22:06
Message-ID: 17A3760B-EB81-4679-A3C3-64ECBC9E2076 () rcbowen ! com
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On Jul 13, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Daniel Gruno wrote:
> Yes, it's grumpy old me again, singing the same song from before.
> It appears that Google et al are still showing our 2.0 documentation as
> a preferred page when searching for various modules and keywords, and I
> still don't like this. I'd like to propose that we add some meta data to
> our 2.0 pages, more specifically:
>
> <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
> or
> <link rel="canonical" href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/"/>
>
Coming late to the party, a comment or two:
1) For the 1.3 docs, obviously, I had to add those rel canonical links by hand to \
each HTML file. Ew. As such, there are still many of those docs that don't have it, \
and so are still top of the Google results. Patches welcome.
2) The biggest difficulty with adding these rel tags automatically is when docs \
change name, or disappear entirely, between versions. In those cases, we need to do \
something special. It's not obvious to me how to do this automatically without \
generating broken links in those cases. That would obviously be bad.
Other than that, I'm very much in favor of this change, and think it's a great \
service both to the end-users and to the documentation team.
--
Rich Bowen
rbowen@rcbowen.com :: @rbowen
rbowen@apache.org
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-webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 13, 2012, at 9:12 AM, \
Daniel Gruno wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote \
type="cite"><div>Yes, it's grumpy old me again, singing the same song from \
before.<br>It appears that Google et al are still showing our 2.0 documentation \
as<br>a preferred page when searching for various modules and keywords, and \
I<br>still don't like this. I'd like to propose that we add some meta data to<br>our \
2.0 pages, more specifically:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" \
style="white-space:pre"> </span><meta name="robots" \
content="noindex"><br>or<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" \
style="white-space:pre"> </span><link rel="canonical" href="<a \
href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/</a>"/><br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Coming \
late to the party, a comment or two:</div><div><br></div><div>1) For the 1.3 docs, \
obviously, I had to add those rel canonical links by hand to each HTML file. Ew. As \
such, there are still many of those docs that don't have it, and so are still top of \
the Google results. Patches welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>2) The biggest \
difficulty with adding these rel tags automatically is when docs change name, or \
disappear entirely, between versions. In those cases, we need to do something \
special. It's not obvious to me how to do this automatically without generating \
broken links in those cases. That would obviously be \
bad.</div><div><br></div><div>Other than that, I'm very much in favor of this change, \
and think it's a great service both to the end-users and to the documentation \
team.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: \
Inconsolata; ">-- </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" \
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break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span \
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font-family: Inconsolata; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: \
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: \
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"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: \
after-white-space; ">Rich Bowen<br><a \
href="mailto:rbowen@rcbowen.com">rbowen@rcbowen.com</a> :: @rbowen<br><a \
href="mailto:rbowen@apache.org">rbowen@apache.org</a><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></span></div></span></span>
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