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Tooling consideration for docs site

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Description

Building/serving a mkdocs site with Material recently yields message:

 │ ⚠ WARNING – MkDocs 2.0 is incompatible with Material for MkDocs
 │
 │   MkDocs 1.x is unmaintained. We recommend switching to Zensical, our
 │   new static site generator, as soon as possible. We're providing an
 │   analysis of the situation in this article:
 │
 │   https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/2026/02/18/mkdocs-2.0/

The linked summary page in the warning promotes Zensical as their suggested migration/continuity approach.

Presently, it seems like the following options are on the table for consideration among:

  1. Pin mkdocs and Material dependencies accordingly.
  2. Migrate to Zensical.
  3. Adopt mkdocs 2.0 with another theme.

Currently, I believe starting with 1) and phasing to 2) is reasonable for least friction and ideal long-term support. Discussion welcome!

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Research direction

No repository files or entry points are named. Start by locating the current MkDocs and Material dependency configuration and the commands used to build or serve the site, then compare the three options against the linked migration guidance. Done should mean that one approach is selected, documented, and verified with a successful site build.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation, tooling
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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