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@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 at 12:27, Even Rouault <even.roua...@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). > > 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/ > > 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 :) > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
