[OpenStack-docs] Installation guides for Juno

Lana Brindley openstack at lanabrindley.com
Mon Jul 11 22:49:59 UTC 2016


So the alternative is to leave them up, but not listed on the main page, and improve our marking of them as deprecated. That's something we've been talking about for ages but haven't actually managed to do yet (in RST, anyway).

L

On 12/07/16 01:49, Matt Kassawara wrote:
> Google is a problem, but not completely to blame. Other content (such as blogs) link to old content on d.o.o, often causing people to inadvertently use old (and perhaps defunct) documentation. The worst-case scenario is new users inadvertently installing an old version of OpenStack (or installing one version and configuring another) because they don't necessarily understand the release conventions.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Petr Kovar <pkovar at redhat.com <mailto:pkovar at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 17:52:16 -0600
>     Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com <mailto:mkassawara at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     > Looks like we need to do some deletions so Google can't find those pages.
> 
>     If the concern are Google searches, wouldn't it be better to move the
>     outdated guide versions to an archive folder and create a robots.txt for
>     it to disable indexing? That way people can still access the old docs if
>     they need them.
> 
>     pk
> 
> 
>     > On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Lana Brindley <openstack at lanabrindley.com <mailto:openstack at lanabrindley.com>>
>     > wrote:
>     >
>     > > Let's kill icehouse first. Stats: http://i.imgur.com/I6n88pm.png
>     > >
>     > > L
>     > >
>     > > On 09/07/16 00:46, Matt Kassawara wrote:
>     > > > Can we get rid of the installation guides for Juno yet?
>     > > >
>     > > >
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