[Matplotlib-devel] moving examples

[Benjamin Root]

I am not too worried about bookmarks. Rather, it is tutorials. We have no
mechanism for permalinking specific examples, which means tutorials
eventually break. It isn't utterly terrible, but it is annoying. I wouldn't
use it as a reason to not re-organize examples at all (it isn't API), but I
wouldn't make a habit of reorganizing things every few releases.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Nelle Varoquaux <nelle.varoquaux at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> 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/ap
>>> i/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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