[ARROW-14189] [Docs] Add version dropdown to the sphinx docs

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.1, 7.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29774
• Assignee: Joris Van den Bossche
• Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche
• Created: 01/Oct/21 08:11
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:38
• Resolved: 27/Oct/21 14:42

Description

As part of ARROW-13260, we need to add a version dropdown to the sphinx theme layout.

There is working happening for this in the upstream theme (https://github.com/pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme/pull/436), but since that is not yet merged/released, I will "backport" it to our own docs.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11283
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11563