Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH v2] doc: fix the switchers menu

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2026-02-04 at 11:03 +0100, Antonin Godard via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Fix the switchers.js script of Bitbake to show what are the supported
> versions and be able to switch between them.
> 
> The default landing page is the stable branch and shows the BitBake
> version along with the corresponding Yocto Project codename. This
> hopefully makes it easier to remember the correspondance between the
> BitBake version and the Yocto Project version.
> 
> This works thanks to a set_versions.py script, which is largely inspired
> from yocto-docs. It reads the tags from the repository and tries to
> guess the currently checked out version of BitBake on which we are.
> 
> The "obsolete" warning is now also shown when browsing outdated manuals,
> meaning any version not part of activereleases in set_versions.py.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
> ---
> Note: This will be accompanied by a patch to adapt the Autobuilder to
> generate this file for each release.
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Remove environment information grabbing mechanism, making this fully
>   standalone.
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250915-fix-switchers-js-v1-0-523ef53fe802@bootlin.com
> ---
>  doc/.gitignore                    |   2 +
>  doc/Makefile                      |   3 +-
>  doc/bitbake.yaml.in               |   1 +

I was about to merge this however is there a requirement to use yaml
here? I ask mainly as we don't currently have yaml config files and I'd
prefer not to start adding them and try to remain consistent with what
we're using...

Cheers,

Richard