[Development] Preventing link rot in Qt docs

[Elvis Stansvik]

Den fre 7 dec. 2018 15:36Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis at qt.io> skrev:

> +1, great idea.
>

+1 from me to, if possible, even if it's a bit of work,
https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

Elvis


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Development <development-bounces at lists.qt-project.org> On
> > Behalf Of Sze Howe Koh
> > Sent: Friday, 7 December 2018 1:47 PM
> > To: Qt development mailing list <development at qt-project.org>
> > Subject: [Development] Preventing link rot in Qt docs
> >
> > In the transition from Qt 5.11 to Qt 5.12, some doc URLs have changed,
> for
> > example:
> >
> >     https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/android-support.html -> https://doc.qt.io/qt-
> > 5/android.html
> >     https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/androidgs.html ->
> https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/android-
> > getting-started.html
> >
> > While I do like the new URLs better, the old URLs now give Error 404.
> > This is a problem because the Qt docs are heavily cited in the forums,
> the
> > wiki, and external sites like StackOverflow. Search engines also take
> time to
> > catch up, e.g. the top two results are currently dead at
> > https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adoc.qt.io%2Fqt-5+android
> >
> > Is it feasible to make doc redirections an integral part of the release
> process?
> > Diffing the list of HTML files produced by qdoc should help a lot.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sze-Howe
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