[sane-devel] SANE Standard face lift

[Povilas Kanapickas]

On 3/1/20 5:10 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Hi Povilas,
> 
> Povilas Kanapickas writes:
> 
>> Hi Olaf,
>>
>> On 2/10/20 4:36 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I converted the project's standard from LaTeX to Sphinx.  You can find
>>> the code at
>>>
>>>   https://gitlab.com/sane-project/standard
>>>
>>> but I really invite everyone to take a look at the published result at
>>>
>>>   https://sane-project.gitlab.io/standard/master/index.html
>>
>> This looks great!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>>> Note that you can access HTML and PDF versions for all tags and branches
>>> from that page as well.
>>>
>>> Please compare that with
>>>
>>>   http://sane-project.org/html/
>>>   http://sane-project.org/sane.pdf
>>>
>>> and what's below
>>>
>>>   http://sane-project.org/sane2/
>>>
>>> Should I replace the links on
>>>
>>>   http://sane-project.org/docs.html
>>>
>>> to point to the Sphinx version?
>>
>> I think yes.
> 
> Done.
> 
>>> If yes, I also suggest dropping the standard from the sane-backends
>>> package and from now on maintain it independently via the `standard`
>>> project linked to above.  Objections anyone?
>>
>> I makes sense to maintain the standard separately. We can always link to
>> it from a README in the backends repository.
> 
> See backends#254.
> 
>>> What about removing some (notably sane2) or all of the pages that are
>>> on our website as of writing?  I can fix up any broken links in issues
>>> and/or merge requests that may result of any removal if needed.
>>
>> Makes sense also. I would recommend adding 301 redirects from the old
>> content to the new. Perhaps just redirect any HTTP request with URL
>> having prefix http://sane-project.org/sane2 to the new location.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion but the SANE Standard is hosted via GitLab
> Pages.  That is, it's a *static* site and there's no control over the
> server.  IIRC there was a note in the GitLab documentation about using
> JavaScript to redirect people but that same note recommended against
> doing so.

Can we perhaps add a bunch of dummy pages that say something along the
lines of "The content has been moved to <here>"?

Regards,
Povilas