Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:43:29 -0400 From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: en_US.ISO8859-1 copy of Committer's Guide is outdated Message-ID: <8e5630ad-0f04-741b-9085-a879dd4046ad@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20210414131758.jfsvm6u2ap27hykt@nerd-thinkpad.local> References: <5628df9d-877c-ab46-36f0-be0b338d654c@bsdio.com> <20210414131758.jfsvm6u2ap27hykt@nerd-thinkpad.local>
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On 4/14/2021 9:17 AM, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 09:05:05PM -0600, Rebecca Cran wrote: >> I noticed that >> >> https://docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/index.html >> >> >> still has the Subversion Primer, while the copy at >> >> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/committers-guide/ >> >> has the updated Git version of the docs. >> Is there some extra work needed for the en_US.ISO8859-1 copy, or was >> it missed in an update? >> >> -- >> Rebecca Cran >> >> > > Hi Rebecca, > > Yes, this is an (unintended, but necessary) consequence of the move > from a previous URI scheme to the new one, that was implemented > along with the AsciiDoctor conversion that was finished some time > ago. > > Eventually, the idea is to set up HTTP 301 redirects, which should > not only ensure that old links get redirected properly to the new > documentation (so that there are no dead links), but it should also > make it so that the various search engines and other web-spiders > pick up on the change. > > The current issue, however, that there's still a few things that > needs to be addressed before this can happen, and we also need to > have an actual map of how the URIs changed, which needs to be > created by someone. It'd be great if someone would be interested in > making this map. :) > > I hope this sheds a bit of light, but rest assured that we're aware > of it, and are working on it. ;) > > Yours, > Daniel Ebdrup Jensen, with a doc hat on. I've seen this happening in a few other places as well. I am wondering about augmenting every page on the doc-legacy site with a big header saying 'You have arrived at an old doc, go to docs.freebsd.org to find the new one' or something. -- Allan Jude
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