Re: Directing old docs to new docs

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On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 14:33:58 -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> Hi Docs team,
> 
> I had a chat this morning with Brian Proffitt (cc'ed), community
> wizard and all-around great guy at Red Hat. One thing we discussed is
> the apparent lack of release notes beyond F26. I say "apparent"
> because I know they're produced, and I know how to find them, but if
> you just search "Fedora release notes", you end up in the old
> Publican-based site.
> 
> I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I'd like to bring it up
> again: how can we easily direct people from the old docs to the new?
> 
> I don't think we want to remove them, because it's good for historical
> reference to have them around, but it would be nice if we could easily
> put a banner or something across the top saying "these are historical,
> click here for the latest docs".
> 
> I know Publican generated the whole of the site, so I'm not sure how
> easy it would be to go shoehorn that in. Another approach would be to
> run all of the old content through pandoc and rebuild in the new
> system. That sounds terrible.
> 
> To a large degree, this is an SEO problem, not a docs problem, but
> "solving" it as a docs problem seems a lot easier. What do y'all
> think?
> 
> One thing I'm going to do is add a link to the top of the ChangeSet
> wiki pages post-release that links to the Release Notes.

Related ticket: https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/docs-fp-o/issue/118

We didn't quite find a simple way of doing this, but yes, it needs to be
done.

Dropping them entirely was suggested, given that they're archived in the
internet archive anyway.

-- 
Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
Time zone: Europe/London

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