[gdal-dev] Building GDAL documentation with ReadTheDocs

[Daniel Baston]

Thanks, Rob. I've added a robots.txt to the PR (using /en/latest/,
since /en/stable/ is not yet published)

Dan

On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 7:44 AM Robert Coup via gdal-dev
<gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 at 12:27, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Le 24/07/2024 à 12:33, Javier Jimenez Shaw via gdal-dev a écrit :
> >
> >> I see the point, and I agree... but I don't know if it will work
> >> RTD redirects to whatever we configure. In proj.org it is going directly to 9.4 (current latest release).
> >
> > Seems like a good idea and something that can be easily be tuned by editing https://readthedocs.org/dashboard/osgeo-proj/edit/ . But when looking at https://proj.org/en/stable/about.html for example, the only thing that is missing to me is a hint of what "stable" alias to. So you have on the top left, under the PROJ logo, a "stable" text. It would be nice if that would be "stable (9.4)". Not sure if that can be tuned.
> >
> > So every 6 months it points to something different. Telling in robots.txt that the full page has a different URL is not good for seo and history (if I understand correctly how it works, that I am not sure).
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> I think using `/en/stable/` (or /latest) as the default URL redirect is the thing — as a new release gets promoted, google/etc will keep using/crawling that, and that link doesn't change.
>
> I think the robots thing would need something a bit like:
>
> allow: /en/stable/
> disallow: /en/
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> Though in principle, no-index would be preferable to "do not crawl". Not sure what levers RTD has in that regard, if /stable/ and /9.4/ are actually different sets of html files then adding in an HTML <meta> tag for noindex might be simple enough for !=stable ?
>
> Rob :)
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