tkknight

The Iris devs made a focused effort to revitalise the documentation as the now [legacy ](https://scitools.org.uk/iris/docs/v2.4.0/index.html)docs were not easy to build and it kinda felt unloved. I helped out with...

The RTD service let's you chose any name for the project. The project Iris was already taken by a different project, so using [scitools-iris](https://scitools-iris.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) seemed to make sense. Also for...

I believe that is a static build of Iris v1.9 that is hosted via github pages. The project (https://github.com/SciTools/scitools.org.uk) is configured to use scitools.org.uk via the setting page: https://github.com/SciTools/scitools.org.uk/settings/pages (viewable...

I would have thought google search would have eventually pointed to the latest version by now - but clearly something is stopping that. There are no current plans to retire...

I've done some thinking on this. I have looked at how the directory structure is setup and noticed that Iris uses [version_switcher.js](https://github.com/SciTools/scitools.org.uk/blob/master/iris/docs/version_switch.js) to manage the pull down of versions to...

Thank to @jamesp 🥇 for the speedy review and follow up web debugging. Now working as planned.

Cartopy uses **gitter**, see https://gitter.im/SciTools/cartopy. Appears to be free. This is not a suggestion - just seeing what options are out there.

There is a sphinx extension https://github.com/jdillard/sphinx-sitemap that creates a ``sitemap.xml`` that is used by search engines to know what pages exist. I believe readthedocs does this [automagically ](https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/hosting.html?highlight=sitemap#sitemaps) for us....

I will draft a small PR for the WSL thing - I'm thinking just a one liner (or maybe a note) and use the link I gave in the issue...

I believe that is due to readthedocs (**latest**) using the **main** branch for the requirements, that use use the env definition https://github.com/SciTools/iris/blob/main/requirements/ci/readthedocs.yml (symlink to iris.yml -> [py38.yml](https://github.com/SciTools/iris/blob/main/requirements/ci/py38.yml#L50)). PR https://github.com/SciTools/iris/pull/4796 to...