URL scheme for links to Handbooks on docs.kde.org

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2014, 19:12:02 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> El Dijous, 16 d'octubre de 2014, a les 19:11:06, Albert Astals Cid va
> 
> escriure:
> > El Dijous, 16 d'octubre de 2014, a les 10:19:09, Burkhard Lück va 
escriure:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > on kde.org and wiki pages most links to the Handbooks on docs.kde.org
> > > use
> > > the scheme
> > > 
> > > http://docs.kde.org/<kdeversion>/<langcode>/<modulname>/<appname>/index.
> > > ht
> > > ml
> > > 
> > > That is really error prone if module are renamed or splitted or moved
> > > from
> > > stable to development kdeversion.
> > > 
> > > With kf5 we will probably get a lot of broken links on our websites.
> > > 
> > > So I propose to use this url scheme instead:
> > > 
> > > http://docs.kde.org/?language=<language>&application=<appname>
> > > 
> > > This url opens the stable version of <appname>/index.html on d.k.o or
> > > the
> > > development version if appname has no stable branch like many extragear
> > > applications
> > > 
> > > What do you think?
> > 
> > Makes sense.
> 
> It would be cool if we could mantain compatibility for the "old" version so
> that existing links also work.
> 
Nothing has to be changed on the d.k.o server to use this url scheme, this 
feature works apparently since ages. It is not my own finding, I got this info 
from comment #6 in BR # 279900

But of course we need a kind of translation layer to have old links also 
working, when d.k.o switches to kf5

-- 
Burkhard Lück