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- 18 root entries were frozen at 2026-07-07 and never updated again - an unversioned path returned 200 with superseded content, so a status check could not detect the stale link - the root 404.html went too: its assets point at /Tools/, never /osw-python/ - keeps .nojekyll and every path mike writes Closes #205
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ideally non-existing old url redirect to the main page, but since the documentation was not much used previously not a critical point
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Closes #205.
Note on the base branch
This targets
gh-pages, notmain. Issue #205 is not a source change: theleftovers live only on the build-output branch.
Changes
Removes 18 root entries, 63 files, deletions only. No file is added or
modified.
404.html,Makefile,assets,auth,authors,changelog,conf.py,contributing,controller,license,model,objects.inv,osw,readme,requirements.txt,search,tools,tutorialsThe root tree goes from 53 entries to 35.
Rationale
These are a complete copy of the Sphinx site deployed before mike. Every entry
is byte-identical to
641d919,
the last Sphinx deployment, on 2026-07-07. They will never update again.
They are worse than absent. An unversioned path returns 200 and serves a
superseded page, so checking a documentation link by status code passes while
the reader sees content from July.
404.htmlis included for a separate reason. GitHub Pages serves a custom 404only from the root copy, so this file is the live 404 page. Its assets point at
/Tools/assets/...while the site is served at/osw-python/, a wrongsite_urlat build time. Every asset it requests returns 404, so it has neverrendered correctly. After removal, Pages serves its own 404 page. mike writes a
correct
latest/404.html, but Pages ignores per-directory copies.Kept
.nojekyll. Its blob matches the July one only because the file is empty.index.html,versions.json,sitemap.xml,sitemap.xml.gz,dev,latest, and the version directories2.0.0to2.8.0.Nothing under
latest/,dev/or any version directory is touched.URLs that change from 200 to 404
The Sphinx layout differs from the current one, so several have no
same-named replacement.
/tools//latest/tools//tutorials//latest/tutorials//osw//latest/api/core//controller//latest/api/controller//model//latest/api/model//auth//latest/api/auth//license/,/authors//latest/about//contributing/,/changelog/,/readme/,/search/CI
gh-pagescarries no.github/directory and nopyproject.toml, so noworkflow runs on a pull request against it. No checks will appear. The merge
triggers a Pages build, which publishes the pruned root.