[COUCHDB-2368] Ask Nicely For Permission To Deprecate the Guide

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Javier Candeira
• Reporter: Javier Candeira
• Created: 09/Oct/14 11:32
• Updated: 02/Sep/18 06:57
• Resolved: 02/Sep/18 06:57

Description

If the Guide is to be deprecated, we should edit each chapter with a header explaining:

• The level at which it is deprecated
• Where the relevant information formerly found in that page is now found
• Some kind of 307 (temporary redirect) to be sent only to Google (check that this is legal and doesn't incur penalty first).

Rationale: newcomers like myself still find the guide through google and other search engines. We should try to SEO-deprecate it while having good content in the pages both for humans and for robots who still find it.

Rationale for 307: I see the 2.0 release as a good opportunity to update the guide, if the stakeholders still want that to happen. I'm being informed that the Guide is not the project's property, but Noahs, JCA's and Jan's. Still, it looks almost official and, being hosted at http://guide.couchdb.org/, it somehow "feels" a bit official to people coming from outside. That's why I dare ask.