(I started a thread about this a while back, but restarting now as I've actually effected a change.)
Our docs now have new additional URLs:
docs.geoserver.org/2.0.x
is now also
docs.geoserver.org/stable
docs.geoserver.org/trunk
is now also
docs.geoserver.org/latest
If this is acceptable to folks, then I would request that instead of linking to version specific docs viz:
http://docs.geoserver.org/2.0.x/en/user/extensions/rest/rest-config-api.html
we instead link to the stable URL:
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/extensions/rest/rest-config-api.html
This way, as the versions change, the links won't, thus hopefully improving our doc linkage and Google juice, and hopefully eventually dethroning Confluence.
Rationale: For example, the links on the rightbar of geoserver.org now (still) point to 1.7.x. If they pointed to "stable" then they would never have to be updated. Links like that need to each be updated manually (through the Confluence template and other places). With the stable/latest shift, only the entry in our Apache config will need to be updated.
If this is not the way to go, then it's a simple matter of undoing (or ignoring). If this is good, I'll make some small edits to the main page at docs.geoserver.org.
Thanks,
Mike Pumphrey
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Looks like a good thing to me.
+1
Simone.
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Mike Pumphrey <mike@anonymised.com> wrote:
(I started a thread about this a while back, but restarting now as I've actually effected a change.)
Our docs now have new additional URLs:
docs.geoserver.org/2.0.x
is now also
docs.geoserver.org/stable
docs.geoserver.org/trunk
is now also
docs.geoserver.org/latest
If this is acceptable to folks, then I would request that instead of linking to version specific docs viz:
http://docs.geoserver.org/2.0.x/en/user/extensions/rest/rest-config-api.html
we instead link to the stable URL:
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/extensions/rest/rest-config-api.html
This way, as the versions change, the links won't, thus hopefully improving our doc linkage and Google juice, and hopefully eventually dethroning Confluence.
Rationale: For example, the links on the rightbar of geoserver.org now (still) point to 1.7.x. If they pointed to "stable" then they would never have to be updated. Links like that need to each be updated manually (through the Confluence template and other places). With the stable/latest shift, only the entry in our Apache config will need to be updated.
If this is not the way to go, then it's a simple matter of undoing (or ignoring). If this is good, I'll make some small edits to the main page at docs.geoserver.org.
Thanks,
Mike Pumphrey
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
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Cool. Okay, I updated the main page at http://docs.geoserver.org .
The links on the rightbar of the GeoServer Confluence theme will be updated as soon as someone remembers to me how exactly that is updated. 
Thanks,
Mike Pumphrey
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
On 3/16/2010 1:01 PM, Simone Giannecchini wrote:
Looks like a good thing to me.
+1
Simone.
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Ing. Simone Giannecchini
GeoSolutions S.A.S.
Founder - Software Engineer
Via Carignoni 51
55041 Camaiore (LU)
Italy
phone: +39 0584983027
fax: +39 0584983027
mob: +39 333 8128928
http://www.geo-solutions.it
http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonegiannecchini
http://twitter.com/simogeo
-------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Mike Pumphrey<mike@anonymised.com> wrote:
(I started a thread about this a while back, but restarting now as I've actually effected a change.)
Our docs now have new additional URLs:
docs.geoserver.org/2.0.x
is now also
docs.geoserver.org/stable
docs.geoserver.org/trunk
is now also
docs.geoserver.org/latest
If this is acceptable to folks, then I would request that instead of linking to version specific docs viz:
http://docs.geoserver.org/2.0.x/en/user/extensions/rest/rest-config-api.html
we instead link to the stable URL:
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/extensions/rest/rest-config-api.html
This way, as the versions change, the links won't, thus hopefully improving our doc linkage and Google juice, and hopefully eventually dethroning Confluence.
Rationale: For example, the links on the rightbar of geoserver.org now (still) point to 1.7.x. If they pointed to "stable" then they would never have to be updated. Links like that need to each be updated manually (through the Confluence template and other places). With the stable/latest shift, only the entry in our Apache config will need to be updated.
If this is not the way to go, then it's a simple matter of undoing (or ignoring). If this is good, I'll make some small edits to the main page at docs.geoserver.org.
Thanks,
Mike Pumphrey
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
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Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs
proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance.
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