> Am 23.04.2021 um 04:45 schrieb Barry Smith <bsm...@petsc.dev>: > > > I can edit documentation pages directly from the page now, this is totally > awesome but I see no button to comment or ask questions on a page. > > I think every page should, by the edit button, have a "Comment, ask > questions" button that anyone can click on to make a comment or ask a > question about the page. It would be super fantastic if they could refer to > particular people in their comments but perhaps that is too difficult.
> For example I am looking at > https://petsc.gitlab.io/-/petsc/-/jobs/1204309863/artifacts/public/overview/features.html > > <https://petsc.gitlab.io/-/petsc/-/jobs/1204309863/artifacts/public/overview/features.html> > and I immediately want to ask > > Where is the TS solver table in the list of solver tables? > > Barry > > Note the pre-historic PETSc html manual pages which everyone despises > have a button in the upper right hand corner to report problems/ask questions > so what I am asking for is not unprecedented. Our old code uses email which > is not ideal but not ideal is better than not. Surely modern systems like > Sphinx have this support built in? > I think the intended way to do this with our Sphinx template would be to add custom HTML templates, which can then be added to the sidebar. https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/sections.html#add-your-own-html-templates-to-theme-sections I'm worried that this involves too much scripting and customization, though. For example here's the way the "edit this page" link is done: https://github.com/pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme/blob/master/pydata_sphinx_theme/_templates/edit-this-page.html Doesn't seem too bad but it relies on a pretty big chunk of Python as well: https://github.com/pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme/blob/master/pydata_sphinx_theme/__init__.py#L438 <https://github.com/pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme/blob/master/pydata_sphinx_theme/__init__.py#L438> I'll open an issue on this, though, since it's entirely possible that someone else (or me, later) will think of a simple way to make this work, as it would indeed be a great feature.
