[jira] [Created] (ARROW-13260) [Doc] Host different released versions of the documentation + version switcher

["Joris Van den Bossche (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Joris Van den Bossche created ARROW-13260:
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             Summary: [Doc] Host different released versions of the documentation + version switcher
                 Key: ARROW-13260
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13260
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Documentation
            Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche


Related to ARROW-1299 for hosting the nightly docs, we could also keep the built docs for older versions instead of overwriting them at each release. 

Currently, the built docs live in the  apache/arrow-site repo (asf-site branch) in the "/docs/" subdirectory. 

When releasing, we could add the newly built docs for that release in a subdirectory instead. Something like "/docs/5.0/" or "/docs/version/5.0".  
(And we could retroactively add some docs of previous releases, if we want)

To make this useful for the user, we need a version switcher in the sphinx theme layout. There are other projects that use the same sphinx theme that have added this (see eg https://mne.tools/stable/index.html), and there is some work to upstream this to the base theme (but on the short term we could also copy such a custom implementation).

For the "stable" docs (latest release), we could either 1) keep a duplicated version of the latest built docs at "/docs/", or 2) symlink "/docs/" to "/docs/5.0/" (and update this for each release; although I am not sure this is possible since it's the other is a child directory). 
We could also add a "/docs/stable/" and make this the default url.

cc [~amol-] [~kszucs]





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