Versioned-docs: do not index old versioned docs

[snazy]

Adds the front-matter tags robots: noindex (HTML META tag) and exclude_search: true (local site search) for old released versions, aka all except 1.3.0. The change was created using the script from #3485.

[dimas-b]

what's the change here? 🤔

[dimas-b]

possibly something to be fixed in the tool? 🤔

[snazy]

Newline

[pingtimeout]

Indeed, a newline at the end of the file

[dimas-b]

@snazy : what is the rationale for not indexing old docs? thx!

[snazy]

Rationale is:
a) the search on the web site yields duplicate results
b) search engines (e.g. Google) or AI tools consider outdated information

[dimas-b]

From my POV the information is not necessarily duplicate / outdated as old docs are relevant to their respective project releases and the content can be different.

Although, I do not mind this change, I wonder what other people think about this 🤔

[snazy]

See #3039 and #3037 for context.

[pingtimeout]

I think for now, given the pace of Polaris and the fact that we are not supporting older releases, it makes sense to only let search engines index the most recent release only.

@dimas-b IMO, the risk of indexing old versions is that there will be more http links pointing to those versions than on the most recent ones. So people search for Polaris help would be redirected to old versions that are not necessary accurate anymore, missing either features or bugfixes. Wdyt?

[dimas-b]

Fair enough 👍