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Move to docs.fsharp.org?
I'd like us to consider working with the FSSF to move https://fsharp.github.io/fsharp-core-docs/ to
https://docs.fsharp.org/reference
As you know, Microsoft and the .NET Foundation host the F# language docs. However the FSharp.Core docs are generated and hosted by the community . This means we have:
https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/fsharp/ -- primary F# docs landing page, e.g. Google search for "F# docs" https://fsharp.github.io/fsharp-core-docs/ -- FSharp.Core docs
There are links across from one to the other. This split structure is not ideal but we have to live with it for now.
I would like us to make the second URL shorter and more canonical, in particular should we utilise docs.fsharp.org to start to host community generated portions of documentation. This would initially mean having this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/fsharp/ -- primary F# docs landing page, e.g. Google search for "F# docs" https://docs.fsharp.org/reference -- FSharp.Core docs
One advantage here is that the canonicals at least for an eventual unified set of docs pages at https://docs.fsharp.org. (We can't have this immediately as it would mean moving the language docs from Microsoft and the .NET Foundation, which would be expensive and cause a maintenance problem). Another advantage is that the FSSF now has the option host whatever additional documentation it likes at https://docs.fsharp.org, though I'm not aware of anything it wants to host. The disadvantage is that people might expect https://docs.fsharp.org to contain all docs for F#.
Best Don
I came here to suggest exactly this. Right now it seems really strange that the FSharp.Core docs are not hosted under the primary domain. Is there any reason why do didn't move forward with your suggestion?
@bbatsov There's no real reason not to move forward now!
Would you like to work on this?
More details of the proposal here
https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp.org/issues/995