openedx / openedx/edx-django-utils

Improve how docs outside the main docs directory get included

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Description

See the following PR for an alternative possibility of using automatically created symlinks, rather than having to create duplicate files, to index other docs in the repository. This PR was closed in draft, but someone might want to take it over the line.

Alternatively, others may have resolved this problem in another way in other repos. Outreach can be done to determine how this is handled elsewhere.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the closed draft PR #293 and its proposed symlink approach. Compare how other repositories include documentation outside the main docs directory, then define and implement a chosen approach that indexes those documents without requiring duplicate files.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
build-system, documentation
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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