Hi everyone, You may have noticed that our API Documentation could really use some SEO. It's possible to search for Beam APIs (e.g. "beam dataframe read_csv" [1] or "beam java ParquetIO" [2]) and you will be directed to some documentation, but it almost always takes you to an old version. I think this could be significantly improved if we just make one change: rather than making https://beam.apache.org/releases/javadoc/current redirect to the latest release, we should just always stage the latest documentation there.
To be clear I'm not 100% sure this will help. I haven't talked to any search engineers or SEO experts about it. I'm just looking at other projects as a point of reference. I've found that I never have trouble finding the latest pandas documentation (e.g. "pandas read_csv" [3]) since it always directs to "pandas-docs/stable/" rather than a particular version number. We should also make sure the version number shows up in the page title, it looks like this isn't the case for Python right now. Would there be any objections to making this change? Also are there thoughts on how to make the change? Presumably this is something we'd have to update in the release process. Thanks, Brian [1] https://beam.apache.org/releases/pydoc/2.25.0/apache_beam.dataframe.io.html [2] https://beam.apache.org/releases/javadoc/2.5.0/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/parquet/ParquetIO.html [3] https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_csv.html
