Basics now reads outward from the format: Lance Format, Lakehouse & Catalog,
Query & Job, SDKs & SQL, Agentic Skills.
Jobs becomes Query & Job. Async means two unrelated things here -- whether your
thread blocks, and whether the work outlives the call -- and nothing said so.
The API Reference tab is gone. Its SDK index is folded into SDKs & SQL, where
the surfaces are already compared; the generated REST pages move into Basics
beside it.
Connecting was described in passing on the catalog page. It is now a Management
page covering the URI forms and what each changes, deployment options, storage
options, and read consistency, since which one you pass decides what exists.
Quickstart ran out at multimodal storage. It now continues through a computed
column and its refresh into a PyTorch loader, which is the arc the rest of the
docs assume.
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