René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Extract the development docs from this repository","articleBody":"We have historically built all of our documentation from the sphinx source in the main matplotlib/matplotlib repo (this one).  We would then host this by unpacking the result of the build at the top level of website + into a version specific sub-folder.  We would also rely on \r\n\r\nWhile this served us well for over a decade, over the past few years we have slowly started to pull things apart.  The goal is to ultimately de-couple the version independent parts of the documentation (which should be re-published as soon as they are update) from the version-specific docs (which should be    Steps we have already taken so far:\r\n\r\n - move the cannonical docs to https://matplotlib.org/stable https://discourse.matplotlib.org/t/canonical-documentation-have-moved/21863\r\n - split the third-party docs out into its own repo https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl-third-party\r\n - have a sphinx theme for all of our websites https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl-sphinx-theme\r\n - split the top-level index into its own repo https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl-brochure-site\r\n - have built docs for the governance https://github.com/matplotlib/governance\r\n - moved our ground-truth hosting to digital ocean https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.org\r\n\r\nThe next thing we should pull out into its own repository is the content under https://matplotlib.org/stable/devel/index.html .  We probably should copy-paste the GHA/sphinx configuration from the governance repo and update the rst in that framework.\r\n\r\nWe should do this as a second step after we finish @noatamir 's update of that content (to make it easier to review the changes at each step).","author":{"url":"https://github.com/tacaswell","@type":"Person","name":"tacaswell"},"datePublished":"2022-04-20T15:17:45.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":17},"url":"https://github.com/22866/matplotlib/issues/22866"}