[ARROW-13405] [Doc] Make "Libraries" the entry point for the documentation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29074
• Assignee: Alessandro Molina
• Reporter: Alessandro Molina
• Created: 20/Jul/21 10:17
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:32
• Resolved: 26/Jul/21 15:46

Description

When you land on the Arrow documentation you are probably looking how to use arrow, the number of people that will need arrow to implement their own binding of it or provide custom support for the arrow format are probably going to be an important but less frequent use case.

We should probably make the "Libraries" section the entry point of the documentation so that one can immediately go to the language they care about (and maybe give it a naming that is easier to put in context for the reader like "Supported Languages").

The "SPECIFICATIONS AND PROTOCOLS" section instead can come after.

It's mostly just a matter of reordering a bit the topics.

Issue Links

• is a child of: ARROW-13407 [Documentation] Documentation Improvements
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10767