[Numpy-discussion] Top level release index page

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 3:18 PM Matti Picus <matti.picus at gmail.com> wrote:

> In PR 13886 I reworked the way the link to the release notes is
> generated. The current page is
>
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> http://www.numpy.org/devdocs/release.html
>
>
> and  the new page is
>
>
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> https://8001-908607-gh.circle-artifacts.com/0/home/circleci/repo/doc/build/html/release.html
>
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> I don't like the "wall of text" in the current page. On the other hand,
> it is nice to use CTRL-F to search the page itself for answers to
> questions like "what release deprecated indexing by float", which is why
> I left the level-of-detail at 3 (1 - release, 2 - sections, 3 - item
> header).
>
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> Should the level-of-detail be reduced to only single links to the
> release document?
>

I like your version, definitely nicer than what we have now, happy to go
with your PR and level-of-detail 3 as is.


>
> An alternative would be to render the contents as a collapsible list,
> which would require some javascript.
>

Hmm, custom JavaScript for navigating Sphinx-navigated docs seems wrong and
is going to be a maintenance hassle at some point.

Cheers,
Ralf
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