[mapserver-dev] docs and branches...

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jeff McKenna wrote:
> I think we've now had 2 big doc discussions on IRC lately, but I suggest 
> we move those discussions to this thread so we can all have input.
> 
> I am for tagging and publishing the docs, but only as long as those docs 
> are frozen (no more updates ever), and somehow those older doc versions 
> can't be mistakenly referenced by Google or whatever (I remember this 
> was a big problem with the doc versions with the blue site, users 
> thinking the latest mapfile parameters were in the doc they were 
> viewing, but they were accessing 3.0 docs or something.  The result was 
> that power users of the old blue site always went to the dev versions of 
> the docs.

Jeff,

I don't forsee any problem using a robots.txt file to lock search engines out
of the older documentation.  We just need to make the effort to do it each
time we fork off a new release with release-related documentation.

Best regards,
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