[Matplotlib-devel] moving examples

[Nelle Varoquaux]

On 13 February 2017 at 16:40, Thomas Caswell <tcaswell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
I am interested: I think it should help us see which examples are
frequently accessed and those which aren't, and could help us merging some
examples together.

I also think we shouldn't be too concerned with breaking people's
bookmarks: if someone has a broken bookmark, it is fairly easy to google
for the replacement.
If renaming, moving or deleting an example makes our life easier, I think
we should go forward with that.

My 2 cents,
N


>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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