Versioning and branching are properties of a table, not steps in getting data
in, so they join the Table group. Consistency stays with Ingestion, where the
question it answers -- when do other writers' rows become visible -- is asked.
The Ingesting Data page was in the Table group while an Ingestion overview
existed separately, so the two are merged. The large-dataset section was
duplicated between it and the insert page; the insert page keeps it.
Schema and Data Evolution covered two different things under one title.
Changing a table's shape stays in Table management; deriving values from data
already there becomes a Feature engineering page, next to computed columns and
functions, which are the same job at larger scale.
The tab opened on Quickstart, buried "What is LanceDB?" inside it, and put
everything else under a single Guides group that had to be expanded before any
section was reachable. Model training sat outside it for no reason.
Reorganize around what a user does, in order: Introduction, Catalog, Ingestion,
Search, Feature engineering, Training, Maintenance, SQL. Guides is gone as a
level, so each section is one click.
New pages: catalog overview and database, and a compaction page under
Maintenance. tables/update covered four separate operations, so it becomes the
Ingestion section — insert, merge insert, update, delete — with insert drawing
on the large-dataset material from tables/create. Its old URL redirects.
Agentic skills move to their own tab after API Reference.
The pages describing this code lived in lancedb/docs, a repository with ten
stars that neither contributing guide mentioned. A user who hit a wrong page
while reading the source had to find a separate, near-invisible repository to
fix it. These 102 pages now sit beside the code, and a documentation fix is a
pull request in the repository the reader already had open.
`docs/web` is a complete Mintlify site: `cd docs/web && mint dev` serves it with
no other checkout. Enterprise pages stay private and are merged in when the
published site is assembled, so links into them do not resolve here — every
open-source page does.
`docs/web-tests` holds the tests the code examples are extracted from. They ran
against a published wheel before; here they can run against this repository's
own SDK, so an example that stops compiling fails the pull request that broke
it rather than being noticed later.
Both directories sit beside `docs/src` and are invisible to it: mkdocs reads
`docs_dir: src`, so the SDK reference builds and deploys exactly as before.
Jack Ye