linux-kernel - Re: confusing changes in the documentation table of contents

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Message-ID: <87ilaiwsyl.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2023 07:47:14 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@...hat.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        kernelnewbies@...nelnewbies.org
Cc:     open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: confusing changes in the documentation table of contents

Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@...hat.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> In https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.2/ Table of Contents consisted
> of 10 items. It was compact, organized and observable:
>
> The Linux Kernel documentation
> - Working with the development community
> - Internal API manuals
> - Development tools and processes
> - User-oriented documentation
> - Firmware-related documentation
> - Architecture-specific documentation
> - Other documentation
> - Translations
> Indices and tables
>
> Since  https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.3/ it consists of 60+ items.
> Now it is long, unorganized and unobservable:

By "table of contents" you're talking about the left column?  That was
done after I got a bunch of complaints about the alabaster sidebar.  I
agree it's still far from ideal.

jon