[Python-Dev] docs.python.org pointing to Python 3 by default? (original) (raw)

Hynek Schlawack hs at ox.cx
Mon May 21 18:25:06 CEST 2012

Also -1 on docs3, that would suggest that it’s still something special and 2 (= docs) is the real deal. Guido and I are proposing docs2 and docs3 each pointing to the latest docs for each series. That puts them on equal status. docs.python.org, besides being a namespace for specific version docs (/x.y, minus Nick's /latest) would be transitioned away from being a synonym for docs2. It could become a neutral index page listing docs2 and docs3 for the 'latest' production version of each series and then each subdirectory.

I find docs2/3 ugly as it reminds me of load balancing (like www1.python.org) and it also doesn’t really make sense to me. I have no problem to have these DNS records and redirect them to docs.python.org/2 or /3 but I wouldn’t like them to be the canonical URIs.

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