Docs need support for a multiversion changed/added marker.
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We have .. versionchanged:: NUMERIC TEXT and .. versionadded:: NUMERIC TEXT support in our ReST docs.
But I believe it must be a single numeric value/word to render meaningfully? What we lack is the less commonly needed ability to specify multiple versions at once. Typically for a subset of security fix backports.
Today's common practice has been to just list the relevant version from the branch being committed to (example: in main 3.12 today, in 3.11: 3.11.99, etc.) with a manual change to the docs required within each backport PR.
This is somewhat unsatisfactory for documentation readers: People often link to and read the latest /3/ docs on the website regardless of the Python version they are using. Where a version marker saying something happened in a specific release often ignores that the change was back-ported to older releases. Meaning people may not realize that unless they happen to bother loading the older version specific documentation.
note: Adding multi-version support in the tags wouldn't address the manual PR change on back-port issue (references to future versions in changed/added markers don't belong there... unless we could we auto-filter those out based on version number at doc compilation time?) - but that, or better, automating initial version population into those fields from the surrounding codebase, belongs in a separate feature request.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing ReST versionchanged and versionadded directives and how they render version values. Define a syntax and rendering behavior for multiple versions, including backported security fixes and filtering future versions; done means the documentation displays each applicable release without manual ambiguity.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100