Documentation Tooling Workgroup Meeting - 23 February 2026

Joseph_Heck · February 23, 2026, 4:28pm

Documentation Tooling Workgroup Meeting - 23 February 2026

Attending

Joe Heck
Vera Mitchell
Sven Schmidt
Dave Verwer
David Ronnqvist

Topics

6.3 beta now available - SEO eval

Discussion

Sven: onboard the new version, couple of weeks we should be able to wrangle

Joe: SEO test targets: swift-openapi-runtime, swift-configuration. A holistic watch of more of the site would be better, but as a stop-gap evaluating keywords and adjusting these sites to see how/if anything changes is our plan at the moment.

Sven: I wonder if there's anything we can do to test the mechanism.

Dave: One of the things we need to do is make sure those URLs are in the search index. Verify that when they change, ensure they're in the index.

Joe: So we need to tune the requests not just for URL base setsup, but specific pages, to make sure they're in the index.

Sven: Is there an alternate path to testing this - shifting it worse instead of better and letting it recover. Any path here to see into this black box?

Dave: What we want ideally - I think - is a set of stable URLs, to see how those rank for relevant key words, deploy a change that exposes the keywords more readably, and then check to see how they sit after google re-indices. We need to be on a page by page basis for this.

Joe keywords I'm tracking: gist:b3cc0e8e687d90b2773f31c0f76e9a14 · GitHub

Sven: thing I want to prepare for - nothing happening. And what we do from there.

Dave: And what this really needs is a significant commitment from Apple for evaluating this on a longer term sort of layout.

Dave: deployment of this tool will require us to roll out a 6.3 beta across the whole site.

Vera: Xcode 26.4 beta 1 has the 6.3 in it.

Action Items

Joe to mark and document steps as this rolls out for changes, including current results, stability, and updated results as they flow - albeit point checks and not a holistic eval.

Joseph_Heck · February 25, 2026, 11:12pm

A brief follow up on the SEO evaluation work that we talked about during the meeting:

/cc @daveverwer

The two projects I've created sets of keywords to explore are swift-configuration and swift-openapi-runtime. The keyword sets align to at least one ideal page:

Keyword	Ideal Page	Verified URL
`swift configuration docs`	Documentation root — landing page for the package's DocC docs	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration`
`vapor configuration package docs`	Documentation root	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration`
`swift server configuration docs`	Documentation root	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration`
`hummingbird configuration docs`	Documentation root	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration`
`swift package configuration docs`	Documentation root	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration`
`Swift Configuration ConfigReader provider hierarchy`	`ConfigReader` symbol reference — covers `init(providers:)`, provider stack, scoping	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration/configreader`
`EnvironmentVariablesProvider Swift automatic key conversion`	`EnvironmentVariablesProvider` symbol reference — documents key-component-to-env-var uppercasing	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration/environmentvariablesprovider`
`ReloadingFileProvider ServiceGroup hot reloading`	`ReloadingFileProvider` symbol reference — covers `Service` conformance, file change monitoring	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration/reloadingfileprovider`
`ConfigSnapshot consistent values mTLS certificate`	`ConfigSnapshot` symbol reference — documents point-in-time immutable reads	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration/configsnapshot`
`AccessLogger FileAccessLogger secret redaction`	"Handling secrets correctly" guide — covers secret redaction, `FileAccessLogger`, and `AccessLogger`	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration/handling-secrets-correctly`
`swift configuration get fetch watch patterns`	"Choosing the access pattern" guide — explains `get`, `fetch`, and `watch` access patterns	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration/choosing-access-patterns`
`DirectoryFilesProvider run secrets docker`	`DirectoryFilesProvider` symbol reference — documents reading Docker/Kubernetes `/run/secrets`	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration/directoryfilesprovider`
`ConfigReader scoped to namespace http timeout`	`ConfigReader` symbol reference — covers `scoped(to:)` for namespacing (e.g. `http.timeout`)	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration/configreader`
`YAMLSnapshot JSONSnapshot FileProvider Swift`	`FileProvider` symbol reference — generic provider used with `JSONSnapshot` and `YAMLSnapshot`	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration/fileprovider`
`CONFIG_ACCESS_LOG_FILE environment variable debugging`	`FileAccessLogger` symbol reference — documents `CONFIG_ACCESS_LOG_FILE` auto-detection; also see Troubleshooting guide	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-configuration/1.1.0/documentation/configuration/fileaccesslogger`

and for swift-openapi-runtime:

Keyword	Ideal Page	Verified URL
`swift openapi server middleware`	`ServerMiddleware` protocol reference — the central type for server-side middleware	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-openapi-runtime/1.10.1/documentation/openapiruntime/servermiddleware`
`Swift OpenAPI Runtime`	Documentation root or package index page	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-openapi-runtime/1.10.1/documentation/openapiruntime`
`ClientTransport protocol Swift`	`ClientTransport` protocol reference — the abstraction over HTTP client libraries	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-openapi-runtime/1.10.1/documentation/openapiruntime/clienttransport`
`ServerTransport protocol Swift`	`ServerTransport` protocol reference — the abstraction for registering HTTP handlers	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-openapi-runtime/1.10.1/documentation/openapiruntime/servertransport`
`ClientMiddleware Swift OpenAPI`	`ClientMiddleware` protocol reference — intercepts outgoing client requests	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-openapi-runtime/1.10.1/documentation/openapiruntime/clientmiddleware`
`ServerMiddleware Swift OpenAPI`	`ServerMiddleware` protocol reference — intercepts incoming server requests	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-openapi-runtime/1.10.1/documentation/openapiruntime/servermiddleware`
`MultipartBoundaryGenerator Swift`	`MultipartBoundaryGenerator` protocol reference — customizes multipart boundary strings	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-openapi-runtime/1.10.1/documentation/openapiruntime/multipartboundarygenerator`
`ISO8601DateTranscoder`	`ISO8601DateTranscoder` symbol reference — the default `DateTranscoder` implementation; also see `DateTranscoder`	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-openapi-runtime/1.10.1/documentation/openapiruntime/iso8601datetranscoder`
`OpenAPIValueContainer`	`OpenAPIValueContainer` symbol reference — untyped JSON value container for dynamic schemas	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-openapi-runtime/1.10.1/documentation/openapiruntime/openapivaluecontainer`
`HTTPBody Swift OpenAPI`	`HTTPBody` symbol reference — streaming body type for requests and responses	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-openapi-runtime/1.10.1/documentation/openapiruntime/httpbody`
`UndocumentedPayload error Swift`	`UndocumentedPayload` symbol reference — represents responses to undocumented HTTP status codes	`https://swiftpackageindex.com/apple/swift-openapi-runtime/1.10.1/documentation/openapiruntime/undocumentedpayload`

I've been collecting data roughly weekly over the past month, with a few earlier snapshots from before the holidays as well, and the current search ranking positions are reasonably stable. I've snagged the stand-along HTML report into a file at baseline.html · GitHub, which you can download and view locally if you're so inclined. The script I cobbled is tracking Google and DuckDuckGo rankings.

The table from it showing the stability (as an image):