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Docs: Terminology issue

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Description

As mentioned by @triceo:

"Overconstrained planning" suffers of a problem that you will never find it if you're not specifically looking for it. It is a very common pattern, but nobody will actually type "overconstrained planning" in the search box, because nobody knows that that's what we're calling it. Our docs suffers from this heavily. "Termination" is another great example; unless you know to look for that word specifically, you are lost.

Let's find a way to fix this. Gut feeling says "FAQ", but it could also be a bit on "solver fundamentals" which explains the core concepts. That feels like it's missing currently.

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Research direction

Review the current documentation for the terms “overconstrained planning” and “termination” and assess how users would discover those concepts without knowing the terminology. Compare an FAQ approach with a solver fundamentals section. Done means the core concepts and alternate ways users might search for them are documented and discoverable.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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