Re: Update to docs root pages and navigation

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.

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