bugGNU Astronomy Utilities - Bugs: bug #67270, Tagging old HTML pages

 
 

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bug #67270: Tagging old HTML pages

Submitter:  Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi>
Submitted:  Wed 02 Jul 2025 01:05:54 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Book Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Output not reasonable
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open

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Wed 02 Jul 2025 01:05:54 PM UTC, original submission:  

Until now, when making a new release, we simply upload the the generated pages of the latest version. In effect, leaving the pages of the old versions still active on the web server! This can cause confusion for users who search online.

As an example, see
https://www.gnu.o ... isel-options.html which belongs to version '0.2.28-34fb'! But the name of that page is very generic so it is bound to show up high in search results and confuse users with options that no longer exist, or their behavior may have changed!

When designing this system, I intentionally didn't want to delete old documentation pages because it would break links! But only now do I notice that the version of the Gnuastro that the page belongs to is not too clear.

To fix this problem, we should adjust the forwebpage script (that generates these pages) so for pages that are not updated a clearly visible notice is printed at the top that this is not the latest version and put a link to take the reader to the top-level table-of-contents of the latest version. In this way, old links will still be active and a visitor will immediately know that this is only preserved for historical reasons.

This bug was reported by Joseph Putko.

Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi>
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