Re: developer.plone.org deeplink redirects?

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On 04/30/2014 04:36 PM, Fred van Dijk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> On 30-04-2014 07:38, Alex Clark wrote:
>>> One possibility does occur to me, though: it may have been nice to leave
>>> the old docs in place for some period of time along with the new docs to
>>> satisfy the "don't break shit" rule. If you know me, you know I've said
>>
>> HV> no, please do not do so, guys; the old documentation must die: the sooner, the better.
>>
>> you have done a hell of a work and I really appreciate that. I understand the frustration of some people but it is more frustrating for anybody to come looking for information and land on a page completely outdated with information that does not work anyway.
> 
> Ehm, I don't see the problem here if the old documentation was still available a few months as a reference on a separate url like old-docs.plone.org or old-developer.plone.org so that community members with any knowledge on the old documentation structure and stored links/bookmarks can still find documentation they remember. With a correct robots.txt it doesn't pollute index results but still allows people to "get work done" and help fixing broken links. 
> 

This will confuse people, for sure this will confuse new people or less
technical user.
After some discussions and brainstorming with the useful input of people
who do documentation for living, we decided to take them down.
Yes, that means you will have to update your bookmarks, and yes that is
extra work.
Please keep in mind we have not only developers in the community we have
also integrators, designer, admins and much more.






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