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Message-ID: <87edku8o7h.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:30:58 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@...hat.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, workflows@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] docs: rework "Working with the development
 community"

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

> Mission: Make the documentation more readable, organized and maintainable.
>
> NB: no information content is lost of changed on the rendered top page.
>
> This patch demonstrates rework of the only the first section
> of the top page for review. The proposal is to rework all sections.
>
> Summary of changes:
> - Heading "Working with the development community" is converted into
>   branch of toctree and visually moved after the text
>   "The essential guides for interacting ..."
> - toctree list is split into separated file. Please don't worry, the
>   content of the list is incorporated to the top page because of
>   `:maxdepth: 2`
> - vertical bar '|' add empty line for better visual distribution

I will repeat.  I do not support carving useful stuff out of the front
page in this way.  The front page does not exist just to make a
nice-looking sidebar.

> Technical explanations:
> Template {{ toctree(maxdepth=3) }} in
> Documentation/sphinx/templates/kernel-toc.html
> uses directives toctree and doesn't use sections on the top page
> Documentation/index.rst
> to generate expandable toc on the sidebar.
>
> BTW, other template {{ toc }} uses only sections, and doesn't
> use directives toctree.

*This* is where the problem lies.  I have started looking at it again,
but digging deep into the Sphinx code can be painful at times.

jon

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