[GRASS-dev] G6 manual pages: text box added to make users aware of G7

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Paulo van Breugel
<p.vanbreugel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18-08-16 10:22, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> Hi devs,

right:
s+devs+all+

>> still our (Google) ranking of the G7 manual is fairly bad (ideas
>> welcome how to fix that).
>
> I am not a developer, just something I wondered; why not having one
> permanent address for the manual, which always reflects the latest stable
> release, and if needed, from there add links to older versions? Obviously
> not a solution for now, but this would lead, in the future, to more stable
> and permanent rankings for the most up-to-date version.

+1

Perhaps simply this:

https://grass.osgeo.org/manuals/
https://grass.osgeo.org/manuals/addons

I could easily add that in the CMS and make it point to the current
stable version.

>> For the time being I have added a HTML injection to the cronjob which
>> creates the G6 manual pages.
>>
>> Each page now contains a box, pointing the user to G7.
>
> Very helpful

Good!

Markus