Re: Update to docs root pages and navigation

From: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Update to docs root pages and navigation
Date: 2020-11-23 23:03:45
Message-ID: 304dff0a-0fa9-432c-e007-8b7372cd1b51@postgresql.org
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On 11/23/20 5:49 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 6:23 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/23/20 11:01 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> I think it requires a silly number of steps to get to our
>>> documentation today. It's not huge, but it's "click documentation,
>>> click "current manuals", click 13". And the actual /docs/ page is
>>> mostly empty, which makes it a waste.
>>>
>>> PFA a patch that changes this:
>>>
>>> * The /docs/ page now gets direct links to all supported documentation
>>> versions, including PDFs
>>>
>>> * The /docs/ page gets a big button that sends you directly to
>>> /docs/current/ -- that link wasn't available at all before
>>
>> I would bikeshed the text on this slightly, perhaps: "Current
>> Documentation" or "Latest Documentation".
>>
>> I'd be ok with "View Current Documentation" as well.
>
> I had that first, but then realized that we have least previously
> separated out "documentation" (all of it) from "Manuals" (explicitly
> the stuff built from the SGML sources). I didn't want to change that
> terminology as part of a restructure, as it would probably have
> effects on other places too.

"Current Manual", "Latest Manual", or "View Current Manual" then :)

Jonathan

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