purescript / purescript/pursuit
Address confusion with links to old package versions
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- Haskell
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Description
There are lots of links in docs pointing to old package versions on pursuit, and this leads to confusion. Some ideas to improve this situation are discussed in this Discourse thread and include:
- Replace the version number in the url with
latest(unless explicitly linking to a version). This is what Elm does. - Add a visual indicator when not browsing the latest version. Either a floating header or background.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked Discourse thread and inspect how Pursuit documentation URLs encode package versions. Compare the proposed latest-version links and visual indicator approaches, then confirm the chosen behavior for explicit version links and browsing older versions.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- haskell
- Domain
- documentation, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100