[issue26355] Emit major version based canonical URLs for docs

[Nick Coghlan]

New submission from Nick Coghlan:

Based on a recent comment on one of the mailing lists, I spent a bit of time looking into canonical URLs and their implications for how search engines treat versioned documentation.

The most relevant resource for that in relation to the CPython docs appears to be this page on ReadTheDocs: http://docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/canonical.html

I sometimes encounter direct links to particular 3.x versions in search results, so I'm wondering if it might be desirable to set up the Python 3 docs to report their canonical URL as "/3/<path>", and the Python 2 docs as "/2/<path>".

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messages: 260227
nosy: georg.brandl, ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Emit major version based canonical URLs for docs
type: enhancement

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