The docs found on google have been vastly out of date for quite a while. For that time, http://llvm.org/doxygen/ has been the correct home of the API docs. See also http://llvm.org/pr32412. The server move last weekend dropped the legacy files. It'll take the google index a bit to notice. robots.txt currently prevents indexing of /doxygen, because there was an issue with the robots, I've been told. Cheers, Philip 2017-06-28 6:41 GMT+02:00 Dipanjan Das via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>:> > Will a permanent redirection (mod_rewrite) from old links to new links for > a few days help Google learn faster? > > On 27 June 2017 at 20:33, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 27 June 2017 at 19:11, George Burgess IV via llvm-dev >> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: >> > There was some kind of server move that happened recently; I'm >> > assuming this is a side-effect of that. >> >> I'd vaguely understood the old links had been deprecated for a while. >> Unfortunately they're still the top Google results when you search for >> the relevant classes, which is really annoying. >> >> If anyone knows any active measures we can take to hasten that being >> fixed, I think we should try. >> >> Tim. >> > > > > -- > > Thanks & Regards, > Dipanjan > > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org > http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20170628/027ef9e8/attachment.html>
Hi, I think we need a fix to this as soon as possible. I know people say that out of date documentation is worse than none, but I think that's horribly false in this case. The LLVM API changes, but I've found even the outdated doxygen far more useful for quick questions than grepping the source. We need to do everything we can to get current doxygen output into a sane search engine, and it really doesn't seem to be happening naturally after the server move. If robots.txt is banning indexing of our documentation that's a massive problem. I'm happy to help out wherever I can, but we need a solution. Cheers. Tim.
On 30 June 2017 at 22:20, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> wrote:> I'm happy to help out wherever I can, but we need a solution. > >I agree that we need a solution ASAP. I am working on a time critical project and every time I get a hit, I need to manually fix the URL to land at the page. This is super annoying. -- Thanks & Regards, Dipanjan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20170630/5d506220/attachment.html>
Added redirect and also removed doxygen from robots.txt -Tanya> On Jun 30, 2017, at 10:20 PM, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I think we need a fix to this as soon as possible. I know people say > that out of date documentation is worse than none, but I think that's > horribly false in this case. The LLVM API changes, but I've found even > the outdated doxygen far more useful for quick questions than grepping > the source. > > We need to do everything we can to get current doxygen output into a > sane search engine, and it really doesn't seem to be happening > naturally after the server move. If robots.txt is banning indexing of > our documentation that's a massive problem. > > I'm happy to help out wherever I can, but we need a solution. > > Cheers. > > Tim.