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Documentation should have a slug that resolves to the latest tag of the project.

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet

Research direction

Start by comparing the documentation website trees and versioning setup in BuildStream, buildstream-plugins, and buildstream-plugins-community. Trace how documentation slugs map to released tags; this is done when a special latest slug resolves to the documentation for the latest project release across all three repositories.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

(I'm opening this issue in BuildStream, buildstream-plugins, and buildstream-plugins-community, as it'll need implementing across those)

It would be nice to have a special slug in the documentation website tree, where the special type of 'latest' would show the docs for the latest version of the project.

This would be useful for documentation that always needs to refer to the latest released version of the project.

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Python
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Merged PRs (30d)
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