Documentation site lacks version selection
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Description
Location (URL)
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/
Summary
While reviewing documentation, after sometime away from Rust, I was surprise that the documentation site at https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ did not provide a convenient means of selecting the Rust version for the documentation it provided. It did help display the Rust version of the documentation it was actually showing but a way to switch to an earlier version that was needed would have been nice. According to Google Gemini, I have to manually modify the URL to insert the correct Rust version, presumably in the correct format whatever that would be.
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Research direction
Start at the documentation site URL https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ and investigate how Rust documentation versions are published and addressed. Determine where version selection could be exposed; done means users can conveniently switch from the displayed documentation to an earlier Rust version.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100