<div dir="ltr">It's a shame that the main documentation does not redirect to the versioned documentation. It would be nice it the only pages bookmarked would be <div><a href="http://matplotlib.org/majorversion/examples/.">matplotlib.org/majorversion/examples/.</a>.. that way we would get the best of both worlds imho. If we can find a simple way of generating redirects as Adrien suggests that sounds reasonable too. I think we should try hard to find a way to move the pylab examples to a folders with a more meaningful name as well as deleting a fair number of examples<br></div><div><br></div><div>Jens</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 at 08:32 <a href="mailto:vincent.adrien@gmail.com">vincent.adrien@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:vincent.adrien@gmail.com">vincent.adrien@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Thomas,<br class="gmail_msg">
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I guess the less imaginative solution may be a simple page referencing the URLs that have changed. Something as simple as:<br class="gmail_msg">
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|                     Former URL                                     |                                     Current URL                                                                               |<br class="gmail_msg">
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| [a_random_pyplot_example](<a href="http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/a_random_pyplot_example.html" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/a_random_pyplot_example.html</a>) | [a_random_example_pyplot](<a href="http://matplotlib.org/examples/pyplot/a_random_pyplot_example.html" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://matplotlib.org/examples/pyplot/a_random_pyplot_example.html</a>) |<br class="gmail_msg">
|                                         ...                                                |                                                           ...                                         |<br class="gmail_msg">
| [a_deleted_example_pyplot](<a href="http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/an_deprecated_example.html" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/an_deprecated_example.html</a>)  |                                  This example was deleted                                             |<br class="gmail_msg">
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which would then be referenced on the main page (maybe in the “Documentation” section, as the links for the previous docs.)<br class="gmail_msg">
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My 2 cents,<br class="gmail_msg">
Adrien<br class="gmail_msg">
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Le 13/02/2017 à 06:20, Thomas Caswell a écrit :<br class="gmail_msg">
> Folks,<br class="gmail_msg">
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> The examples have been getting a lot of attention recently (much credit<br class="gmail_msg">
> to Nelle who is leading that effort) which is great!  However I am a bit<br class="gmail_msg">
> worried about moving/renaming examples as it will break peoples bookmarks.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> How much do we care about that (I may be being overly worried/cautious<br class="gmail_msg">
> here)? What are our options for leaving bread-crumbs / forwards for people?<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Tom<br class="gmail_msg">
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