Hide unbuilt versions in the flyout

[ericholscher]

Currently we show links to docs in the flyout that have built=False in them. This leads to 404's. We should filter those out when showing the version list when we expect users to be able to view the docs.

[prashantmital]

Is there a way to disable this behavior? On https://pymongo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ we relied on unbuilt versions showing up in the version picker. The 404s were worked around using a redirect to another website that hosted docs for those versions.

For example, https://pymongo.readthedocs.io/en/3.5.0/ shows the documentation that we want. But 3.5.0 does not show up in our version picker because the corresponding RTD build has failed.

[stsewd]

No, you can't disable this behavior, I'm not sure if we want to support that use case (showing fake versions). Maybe a better solution would be showing those versions in another page.

[prashantmital]

@stsewd thanks for the quick response. I'm surprised to learn that you have no plans to support this use-case especially since it seems like you are aware of it: #6137 (comment)

[humitos]

@prashantmital Yeah. I'd like to reconsider this use case eventually and build a proper feature around it (instead of the "hidden feature" that I described in the linked comment). I know some people were using this already.

I'd suggest you to open a new issue as "Feature request" explaining your use case and linking the history around this. I don't think it will hit our roadmap soon though, but I'd like to see this feature to happen eventually. This is a good onboarding feature for people migrating their docs into Read the Docs, which is 💯 to us.