From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Doc comments on unsupported versions |
Date: | 2018-05-08 14:45:03 |
Message-ID: | 20180508144502.GA6876@fetter.org |
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On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 07:38:43PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 4:08 PM, Peter Eisentraut <
> peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> - Disable the link for submitting documentation comments on EOL versions.
>
> I actually thought we had done that, but it seems not. That should be an
> easy enough fix.
Excellent plan!
> - Enforce a minimum number of characters in comments (hello Stack Overflow).
>
> Do you have a suggested number? :)
5000 would cut down on the silliness pretty completely. 250 would do
the same, but be less obviously obnoxious.
> > I would even go so far as
> >
> > - Remove EOL documentation for search engine results.
>
> We do include them, but we drop their priority to the lowest possible one.
> Supposedly that should mean you can only get to them if you explicitly
> choose which version to include, but it appears search engines really don't
> give a shit about that.
>
> We have previously said we don't want to remove them completely, because
> that makes it impossible to search for historical data. But we've also said
> that maybe we have to give up, because search engines don't even let us
> de-prioritize our own pages :(
I think that by the time someone is searching for things PostgreSQL
8.2, that's specialty enough a request that they should come to
postgresql.org and do it rather than relying on someone else's search
engine.
> > - Display them in faint grey text color or otherwise make them annoying
> > to read.
>
> Unfortunately, the <blink> tag has been removed from browsers..
Fortunately, there are more modern ways to be super annoying. For
example: https://codepen.io/anasandoval90/pen/jPXxaR
Best,
David.
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