Consider switching sphinx theme

I see that https://github.com/marshmallow-code/webargs/pull/607 is failing with an error because sphinx-typlog-theme is somehow mismatching with sphinx==4.0.2. I haven’t looked carefully into what that error about metatags means, but I’m betting it was dropped in sphinx v4 and sphinx is now catching this usage.

Given that the theme hasn’t been updated in a couple of years, I wonder if we should consider switching the theme for webargs?

We could go with alabaster, which is what marshmallow uses, or the new hotness of furo. I’ve been looking at furo for some things at work, and I like generally how it looks and feels.

@sloria, @lafrech, what do you guys think? Try out furo, switch to alabaster, or should we look at contributing a fix to the typlog theme?

[sirosen]

Well, this is slightly embarrassing for me! Furo doesn’t support sphinx v4 yet.

~I’ll open an issue there to see if it’s easy to handle, but I won’t do a branch of webargs for it yet.~ EDIT: Turns out, there’s active effort on this but in a discussion, so I didn’t find it in an issue search. I’ll just wait a little.

[sirosen]

closed by #615