x/pkgsite: pkg.go.dev tracking issue

[julieqiu]

This is the tracking issue for the Go discovery site, previously announced in the Go Modules in 2019 blog post. The parent umbrella issue for all “godoc”-like projects is #26827.

The website will display documentation for Go packages with version support and provide features that help developers discover and evaluate Go packages or modules.

The discovery site is currently in development. We are working towards launching by the end of the year.

As mentioned in golang/gddo#567 (comment), some early mockups of the discovery site were first shared in the "Finding Dependable Go Packages" talk (slides) at GothamGo 2019 (video). These can be seen starting at slide 92.

If you are interested in this topic, please subscribe to this issue. We will use it to post future updates. You can also find us in the #tools channel on the Gophers Slack.

[julieqiu]

The discovery site is now live at pkg.go.dev!

You can read about it on the latest Go blog post.

We hope that you will try it out, and we would love to hear your feedback! We are just getting started with building out pkg.go.dev, so some bugs are to be expected. Please file any issues and share your thoughts with us by clicking "Share Feedback" or "Report an Issue" in the footer of every page , or by emailing <removed>.

We look forward to hearing everyone’s feedback!

[julieqiu]

We would love to know if your organization is running an internal Go documentation service, to inform our open source strategy for pkg.go.dev.

If this is something that your organization is currently doing, please share your use case with us by sending an email to <removed>, or filling out the Go Developer survey.

[julieqiu]

We recently updated pkg.go.dev/license-policy to include our list of accepted licenses, and to clarify that we use github.com/google/licensecheck for license detection. If you still have questions about your license, feel free to file an issue email <removed>.

We plan to respond to all issues in the new year, and to continue working with our legal team to resolve any license issues. Thanks for being patient with us as we work through them!

[julieqiu]

Thanks to everyone for all the feedback so far on go.dev!

We’ve read it all, and it’s helping us to make the site better.

A few themes have emerged, and one of them is about feedback itself. Many of you have pointed out that certain types of discussion would be better served by a public issue tracker.

For that reason, we're opening up the Go issue tracker as an additional channel for feedback for go.dev. The issue tracker is useful to post issues that you think would be relevant to other members of the Go community, and to share features and issues that you would like to have discussed on a public forum.

Feel free to start sharing your ideas on the Go issue tracker! Please prefix your issues with go.dev:.

You can continue sending us feedback via our current channels:

• Emailing go-discovery-feedback@google.com.
  • We try to respond to all of the emails that we receive.
• Clicking “Share Feedback” or “Report an Issue” in the footer of every page.
  • Feedback received here is anonymous, so please email go-discovery-feedback@google.com instead if you would like a response!

We look forward to hearing your feedback!