Re: Documentation: Should we possibly have aliases for current stable and current devel?

[Kevin Cole]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 11:55 AM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>
> Le lundi 13 février 2023 à 11:40 -0500, Kevin Cole a écrit :
>
> The point I was trying to make was "Does there REALLY need to be
> documentation for versions 2.13 to 2.25?  Maybe 2.20 to 2.25 would
> suffice."
>
> I'm not sure it would help with Qwant/DuckDuckGo/Google searches since we are 
> already marking the old documentation pages with 'Disallow' in robots.txt, 
> which is supposed to prevent Web crawlers from indexing them. Would 
> completely removing the old pages work better, or just turn the search 
> results into 404s instead of outdated documentation?

Ah. I was unaware of the robots.txt -- though sometimes I wonder if
web crawlers pay any attention.

> In any case, the ideal solution would be a client-side search button in the 
> documentation instead of the current Google search button.

THAT, on the other hand, would be wonderful!