swiftlang / swiftlang/docs

Host the compiler documentation in swift/docs

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enhancement
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Python
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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Currently there is no official website to host the historical out-of-date sphinx documentation.

LLVM and Clang's website is hosting them under /docs/

eg. LLVM/LangRef Clang Doc

We had to either read it through some third-party website or clone the Swift repository and manually compile and deploy it for local reading.

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Describe the solution you'd like

Hosting them under swift.org/docs website.

Considering some of the docs have been explicitly marked as archive or no longer actively update, we can also consider hosting them to swift.org/archive/docs

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Research direction

Start with the historical Sphinx documentation and the proposed swift.org/docs and swift.org/archive/docs entry points. Determine which archived documents should be hosted at each location, then verify that the published pages are available for reading without local compilation or a third-party site.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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