[Matplotlib-devel] moving examples

Thomas Caswell tcaswell at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 19:40:46 EST 2017


yes, i will give access to anyone who wants.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 19:38 Nelle Varoquaux <nelle.varoquaux at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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
> matplotlib.org/majorversion/examples/... 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
>
>
> Somewhat related to deleting examples, do we have any kind of analytics on
> our website frequency usage? something like google analytics. It could help
> us see what people are using in our documentation.
>
>
>
>
> Jens
>
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 at 08:32 vincent.adrien at gmail.com <
> vincent.adrien at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I guess the less imaginative solution may be a simple page referencing the
> URLs that have changed. Something as simple as:
>
> |                     Former URL                                     |
>                                  Current URL
>                                                |
>
> |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
> | [a_random_pyplot_example](
> http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/a_random_pyplot_example.html) |
> [a_random_example_pyplot](
> http://matplotlib.org/examples/pyplot/a_random_pyplot_example.html) |
> |                                         ...
>                   |
>    ...                                         |
> | [a_deleted_example_pyplot](
> http://matplotlib.org/examples/api/an_deprecated_example.html)  |
>                           This example was deleted
>                    |
>
> which would then be referenced on the main page (maybe in the
> “Documentation” section, as the links for the previous docs.)
>
> My 2 cents,
> Adrien
>
> Le 13/02/2017 à 06:20, Thomas Caswell a écrit :
> > Folks,
> >
> > The examples have been getting a lot of attention recently (much credit
> > to Nelle who is leading that effort) which is great!  However I am a bit
> > worried about moving/renaming examples as it will break peoples
> bookmarks.
> >
> > How much do we care about that (I may be being overly worried/cautious
> > here)? What are our options for leaving bread-crumbs / forwards for
> people?
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
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