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Strategic Refactor: Establish Persona-Based Documentation Paths #250

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Problem Statement: Currently, the AboutCode documentation is structured primarily around tool functionality. However, our ongoing research into User Roles (see PR #249) indicates that our audience is split between highly technical developers, legal compliance officers, and security researchers. Each of these groups has different "information hunger" and entry points.

Proposal: Conduct a comprehensive audit of the existing documentation to map current content against the newly defined personas:

Legal/Compliance: High-level summaries, license policy guides, and reporting features.

Security/SCA: Vulnerability database integration and scanning workflows.

Dev/Integrators: CLI usage, API documentation, and CI/CD pipeline integration.

Goals:

Identify Gaps: Determine which roles are currently underserved by the documentation.

Navigation Overhaul: Propose a "Choose Your Own Adventure" style landing page for docs.aboutcode.org.

Language Consistency: Ensure that non-technical roles aren't hit with jargon in the introductory sections.

Acceptance Criteria:

[ ] A spreadsheet or map of existing .rst/.md files tagged by target persona.

[ ] A proposed new Site Map for the Sphinx documentation.

[ ] A "User Journey" document for at least two primary roles (e.g., a first-time Compliance Officer vs. a Senior DevOps Engineer).

Additional Context: This issue will directly consume the results of the Slack poll initiated in #249 to ensure the reorganization is data-driven.

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