# Documentation Tooling Workgroup Meeting - 23 February 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Workgroup Updates\ **Created:** [February 23, 2026, 4:28pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/documentation-tooling-workgroup-meeting-23-february-2026/84920 "2026-02-23T16:28:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joseph\_Heck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/joseph_heck/32/22369_2.png) [@Joseph\_Heck](https://forums.swift.org/u/Joseph_Heck)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 4:28pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/documentation-tooling-workgroup-meeting-23-february-2026/84920/1 "2026-02-23T16:28:53Z")
# 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](https://gist.github.com/heckj/b3cc0e8e687d90b2773f31c0f76e9a14) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Joseph\_Heck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/joseph_heck/32/22369_2.png) [@Joseph\_Heck](https://forums.swift.org/u/Joseph_Heck)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 11:12pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/documentation-tooling-workgroup-meeting-23-february-2026/84920/2 "2026-02-25T23:12:57Z")
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](https://gist.github.com/heckj/d54ecee9ead7ac98b7dcd76912d3e2f6), 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): ![Screenshot 2026-02-25 at 3.12.28 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/swift/original/3X/5/3/53cbc32738529eadab0c3d2da8c126413f779541.jpeg)