[Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Mon Feb 13 23:29:11 CET 2006

On Monday 13 February 2006 15:40, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Shouldn't docs.python.org be removed? It seems to add mroe confusion than anything, especially since most links on python.org continue to point to python.org/doc/.

docs.python.org was created specifically to make searching the most recent "stable" version of the docs easier (using Google's site: modifier, no less).
I don't know what the link count statistics say (other than what you mention), and don't know which gets hit more often, but I still think it's a reasonable approach.

I've been switching links to point to docs.python.org whenever I find an older link that points to www.python.org/doc/current/; other parts of the doc/ area from the site didn't move, and perhaps that's a problem that should be addressed.

(Now that I work for Google I realize more than ever before the importance of keeping URLs stable; PageRank(tm) numbers don't get transferred as quickly as contents. I have this worry too in the context of the python.org redesign; 301 permanent redirect is not going to help PageRank of the new page.)

Maybe I'm just not getting why that's relevant.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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