pantsbuild.org/versions has many broken links

[foobar-coder]

Describe the bug

Many links on the versions page lead to a 404 page

Additional info

Examples:

https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.17.x/docs/introduction/how-does-pants-work

https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.4.x/docs/introduction/how-does-pants-work

[huonw]

Oops, sorry for the trouble. Thoughts @thejcannon ?

[thejcannon]

It's the ".x" in the URL 😢

I don't think this page survived the Great Find-and-Replace

@foobar-coder would you be interested in a little PR?

[foobar-coder]

@thejcannon

would you be interested in a little PR?

I could review one for sure.

But I don't know enough about your codebase to fix this problem and open a PR myself

[foobar-coder]

It's the ".x" in the URL

FWIW, it's not just the x

Example:

https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.6/docs/introduction/how-does-pants-work
https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.6/docs/

[huonw]

Thanks @foobar-coder !

The page in question is https://github.com/pantsbuild/pantsbuild.org/blob/main/src/pages/versions/index.md

Good catch with those extra problems, it looks like there's a two sets of fixes to make:

• remove the .xs
• change the starting point links for all versions

versions	starting page	example
2.10 - 2.19	docs/introduction/welcome-to-pants	https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.10/docs/introduction/welcome-to-pants
2.6 - 2.9	docs/learn-about-pants/welcome-to-pants	https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.6/docs/learn-about-pants/welcome-to-pants
2.0 - 2.5	docs/introduction/welcome-to-pants	https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.0/docs/introduction/welcome-to-pants

[huonw]

Oh, hm, versions 2.10 - 2.19 have a welcome-to-pants page too (e.g. https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.10/docs/introduction/welcome-to-pants), and that's the default one (e.g the "Docs" link in the navbar is to https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.18/docs/introduction/welcome-to-pants), but the versions page links to https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.18/docs/introduction/how-does-pants-work instead. I've adjusted the table to suggest they need to be updated too.