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prototype selection mechanism for different (combined) DocC archive collections

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Python
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Description

Page URL

https://docs.swift.org/latest/documentation/

Description

We've explored this some previously - there's prior art with how the Swift Package Index handles navigating between public DocC archives - that enables some version selection options that are wrapped around how DocC presents it's content, allowing you to switch to and see alternate versions.

Today we have latest (built for 6.4) and main (nightly main development) - and in the future we'll have more release branches, including an explicit /6.4/ url slug version for when latest moves forward

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Research direction

Start at https://docs.swift.org/latest/documentation/ and review how the Swift Package Index navigates between public DocC archives. Define a prototype for selecting among combined archive collections that supports the current latest and main views and the future explicit /6.4/ version URL.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
swift
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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