Common navigation in the website of scipy projects

[datapythonista]

We're discussing in numpy/numpy.org#43 about having common or similar navigation in different projects of the ecosystem, so for example users using numpy + astropy are not confused trying to find the same things with different names and different places in both projects.

I think Astropy navigation is not very far from what we've been discussing so far. May be you want to join the party? :)

[pllim]

Hello! 😄

Are you referring to https://github.com/astropy/astropy.github.com or what Sphinx renders at https://astropy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ?

[datapythonista]

I refer to the top bar in https://www.astropy.org/, but probably even better if having it in both. Do you prefer me to open the issue in the other repo?

[pllim]

Thanks for the clarifications! I'll defer to the @astropy/coordinators . 😸

[bsipocz]

As I remember quite a lot of discussion and iterations has been put in the current top bar, so while it would be nice to have something more uniform along the wider ecosystem it would be rather nice to not divert too much from what we have now.

(To make docs.astropy.org and astropy.org share more of the top bar is in the works, the former will inherit them from the latter once the changes in the sphinx theme are merged. The longer term idea was to share that top bar more in the astropy ecosystem, as we have multiple packages etc.).

[embray]

This is also related to #11520. Changing to the PyData sphinx theme would require some rewiring at least of docs.astropy.org to look more like https://numpy.org/doc/stable/ which has some top-level sections like "User Guide" "API Reference" "Development". It doesn't have to be the exact same layout necessarily but something like it.

The pandas docs are using a similar layout but also add "Getting Started" and "Release notes" to the top navbar: https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/