<div dir="ltr"><div>Current situation in PROJ and GDAL webpages:</div><div>---------------------<br></div><div>PROJ<br></div><div><a href="http://proj.org">proj.org</a> -> <a href="https://proj.org/en/9.5/">https://proj.org/en/9.5/</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://proj.org/robots.txt">https://proj.org/robots.txt</a></div><div><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre-wrap">User-agent: *

Disallow: # Allow everything

Sitemap: <a href="https://proj.org/sitemap.xml">https://proj.org/sitemap.xml</a><br></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">---------------------</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">GDAL<br></span></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://gdal.org">gdal.org</a> -> <a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/">https://gdal.org/en/latest/</a><br><br><a href="https://gdal.org/robots.txt">https://gdal.org/robots.txt</a></span><br><br>User-agent: *

Disallow: # Allow everything

Sitemap: <a href="https://gdal.org/sitemap.xml">https://gdal.org/sitemap.xml</a><br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">---------------------<br><br></span></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I have the impression (maybe I misunderstood) that both the automatic redirection and the robots should be pointing to "stable". (GDAL didn't have "stable" url at the beginning, I know)<br></span></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">That will make search engine indexers don't have to remake the index, with the consequent degradation in the position. Also will not point somebody to an old version of the software. It is good that the old versions are there in case you need it, but search engines should point to "stable" (and IMHO not to latest, with functionalities that are may not be released yet).<br><br></span></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">What do you think?<br><br></span></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">There was a problem in PROJ after the last release. Maybe we can fix it to be ready for the next release in a couple of weeks.<br></span></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">BTW, should I send this email also to GDAL mailing list?<br><br></span></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Cheers,<br></span></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Javier<br></span></pre></div></div>