Re: Doc search: update to version 2.15, use it in the "site:" part (issue 5530043)

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 02:10:24PM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> I totally share your sentiment, but we depend on an external entity
> here, which we cannot control.  Suppose we go from 2.15.x to 2.17.x and
> put the documentation under "v2.17".  For some time, Google won't have
> the new location in its index, so the search would get nothing.  It
> would be better to keep "v2.15" in the search for a while and have a
> redirection from "v2.15" to "v2.17".  

Great point!  Could you add a comment to this effect to the top of
this file?  there's no way that I'll remember otherwise.

> Speaking of redirections, I would
> prefer that Lilypond had just two versions of its documentation online -
> latest "stable" and latest "development".  "v2.12" and "v2.14" shoould
> redirect to "stable", "v2.15" should redirect to "development".

We want to keep all stable docs available for historical reasons,
but I'm not opposed to directing people to
  /doc/stable/
  /doc/development/
rather than vX.Y.  If you feel like looking into this, the
htaccess is in Documentation/web/server/

- Graham