On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 11:52 AM Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I don't think it'd actually be harder. Look at Python documentation — the top level links all go to https://docs.python.org/3/, which defaults to "latest", but you can choose earlier versions from the dropdown. We have that same thing with Antora, but two entry points.
Sure. This topic isn't worth a battle royale for me, but I do think it would represent a regression in how we present our documentation, even though the docs are still there and findable.
Also though: that versioned documentation contains three things:
This is a digression, but I agree with all of it.
Yes. Right now, once you click on https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/, you're in that space, and https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/iot/ is another, each with unique left menus. What if we put them all into one unified menu, with the edition names as top-level menu items on the left menu?
That would represent a pretty significant paradigm shift. We might be able to get all of the docs to pull nav.adoc from an external repo, but that would break local preview builds. Otherwise, we'd need to combine all of those into a single repo, which presents its own set of challenges.
The other approach would be to reproduce all of the nav in each module's nav.adoc. But this would require being kept in sync manually. That content would be relatively static, so it wouldn't drift too often, but that also means we'd probably forget about it when a new change is made.
- Not sure where stuff like Gaming should go.
Are we talking about using Games or participating in the Games SIG?
I guess it is the later. But where would user documentation produced by that team go?
For the latter, it would be under Engineering Teams. For the former, when it exists, it would go under Quick Docs or release-specific docs, I'd say.
- Outreachy docs should be removed, since they're not on the docs site.
Why does it matter if it's on the docs site? It's still documentation.
Because we're steering people back into the wiki, perpetuating the confusion of our current "where are the docs" story.
Or to put it another way: I don't think the docs.fpo front page should serve as an index to the wiki, even if that part of the wiki is kept up to date.
I agree with the fact that "where are the docs" is confusing. But using docs.fp.o to point to things that are still in the wiki for whatever reason makes it less confusing. The story is "go to docs.fp.o and follow the link you want". If that stays on docs or sends folks to the wiki or readthedocs or whatever other platform, that's okay. The point is that docs.fp.o becomes _the_ front page of our documentation.