rust-lang / rust-lang/rust

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.

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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

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