on Wed Nov 30 2011, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/30/2011 8:13 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:
I would argue that in this case the behavior is actually good. Your SO question and answer is dated and hence fits having a dated link. Otherwise the link might point to non-existent documentation or totally changed behavior on the referred page and hence invalidating your answer.
And now that I think about it further I would argue that having the versioned link is the most pertinent use case. The release links are only wanted in two cases: when returning search results, and when specifically referring from other documentation. The first being the subject of the OP.
PS. Which suggest the most favorable solution as:
1. Change the release URLs to be temporary redirects (to make search engines not discount the release URLs) 2. Block search crawlers from indexing the versioned trees of the docs.
Which should have the effect of searches returning the release links always without loosing the redirects.
I am not an expert in these things, but I do know the current situation is kinda messed up and if you think you know what to do about it, please be my guest! -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com