Short doc url don't mention Rust version at all

[huonw]

E.g. http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/index.html

Possible solutions:

• not have the short forms
• have the version on each page
• redirect to the .../master/... or .../1.0/... (or whatever) version as appropriate

[alexcrichton]

The current action is intentional, and we have some rules in nginx to rewrite urls to /master. I personally like the short urls, but it's true that there's no indication in the url or on the page what the version is.

Nominating, we should probably have stable doc urls for 1.0.

[taralx]

What about displaying the version number on the page, with a dropdown to change it, like Python has?

[brson]

1.0 P-low

[brson]

One of Google's SEO recommendation is "Provide one version of a URL to
reach a document" (from here), which might argue for redirects instead.

[taralx]

link rel="canonical" fixes that.

[brson]

Nominating for removal from 1.0. Not critical.

[pnkfelix]

Leaving as P-low, removing from 1.0 milestone list. No one wants to block the release on this issue.

[mdinger]

I like how python labels versions at the top left and allows you to switch between them:

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Ruby also makes it prominent modifying their image:

[steveklabnik]

#22168 is another problem that comes out of this thing.

I'm wondering if we shouldn't just axe the short URLs alltogether, or always re-write them to nightly.

[steveklabnik]

Triage: no change.

[QuietMisdreavus]

Discussion related to this happened in and around RFC 1826, so something to alleviate this is probably going to happen eventually.

[Mark-Simulacrum]

I'm going to close this as what we should do here is not for this issue -- and I believe the tracking issue for the 1826 RFC lays this out in better detail: #44687