Docs: Implement Plugins expandable dropdown submenu under Scheduler with visual hierarchy

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Documentation refactoring and theme template enhancement

• What this PR does / why we need it:

Refactors the Plugins documentation from a single unified page into individual pages for each plugin, organized as an expandable dropdown submenu under Scheduler in the navigation with proper visual hierarchy. Since Hugo v0.57.2 doesn't natively support 3-level menu nesting, this PR includes theme template modifications to enable the dropdown functionality and visual indentation.

Changes Made:

• Split plugins.md into 11 individual plugin documentation files:

  • gang.md - Gang Plugin (all-or-nothing scheduling)
  • binpack.md - Binpack Plugin (maximize resource utilization)
  • priority.md - Priority Plugin (priority-based scheduling)
  • drf.md - DRF Plugin (Dominant Resource Fairness)
  • proportion.md - Proportion Plugin (queue-based allocation)
  • task-topology.md - Task-topology Plugin (affinity/anti-affinity)
  • predicates.md - Predicates Plugin (job filtering)
  • nodeorder.md - Nodeorder Plugin (node scoring)
  • sla.md - SLA Plugin (service level enforcement)
  • tdm.md - TDM Plugin (time division multiplexing)
  • numa-aware.md - Numa-aware Plugin (NUMA topology aware)

• Created plugins-overview.md listing all available plugins

• Updated menu configuration with "Plugins" as a child of "Scheduler"

• Modified theme template (themes/academic/layouts/partials/docs_sidebar.html):

  • Added support for checking .HasChildren on second-level menu items
  • Implemented nested submenu rendering with dropdown arrow indicator
  • Added toggleSubmenu() JavaScript function for expand/collapse functionality
  • Added visual indentation (padding-left: 15px;) to all Scheduler submenu items to clearly show hierarchy

Navigation Structure:

Scheduler                          ← Top level (no padding)
    Overview                       ← Indented 15px
    Actions                        ← Indented 15px
    Plugins (expandable)           ← Indented 15px with dropdown arrow
        Gang                       ← Indented 30px total (15px + 15px)
        Binpack                    ← Indented 30px total
        Priority                   ← Indented 30px total
        DRF                        ← Indented 30px total
        Proportion                 ← Indented 30px total
        Task-topology              ← Indented 30px total
        Predicates                 ← Indented 30px total
        Nodeorder                  ← Indented 30px total
        SLA                        ← Indented 30px total
        TDM                        ← Indented 30px total
        Numa-aware                 ← Indented 30px total
    Scenario & Configuration       ← Indented 15px

Screenshots:

Scheduler expanded with Plugins collapsed (showing visual hierarchy):

Scheduler expanded with Plugins dropdown expanded:

Technical Implementation:

Hugo v0.57.2 doesn't natively support 3-level menu nesting, so the template was modified to:

1. Check for .HasChildren on second-level items (Plugins under Scheduler)
2. Render nested <ul> elements with docs-sidenav-nested class
3. Add clickable dropdown arrow positioned absolutely next to items with children
4. Toggle visibility via JavaScript (toggleSubmenu() function) that switches between display: none and display: block
5. Apply padding-left: 15px; to all <li> elements that are children of Scheduler to create clear visual hierarchy

The visual indentation makes it immediately clear that:

• Plugins is a child of Scheduler (shown by 15px indentation)
• Plugins can be expanded to show individual plugins (shown by dropdown arrow)
• Individual plugins are children of Plugins (shown by additional 15px indentation, total 30px)

Verified:

• ✅ Hugo v0.57.2 builds successfully without errors
• ✅ All 11 individual plugin pages accessible via navigation
• ✅ Dropdown arrow appears next to Plugins menu item
• ✅ Clicking arrow expands/collapses the plugin list
• ✅ All links within submenu are correct and functional
• ✅ Visual hierarchy clearly shows Plugins as a child of Scheduler with proper indentation

• Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes #425

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<issue_title>Docs(Plugins): Refactor plugins menu to be a submenu of Scheduler</issue_title>
<issue_description>### Goal
Refactor the "Plugins" menu to be a submenu of the "Scheduler" menu in the website's navigation.

Context

The website is built with Hugo v0.57.2. Currently, "Plugins" is a top-level menu item, but it should be nested under "Scheduler" for better organization. The older Hugo version may present technical challenges. This change depends on the completion of issue #426.

Acceptance Criteria

• The website's navigation is updated to show "Plugins" as a submenu under "Scheduler".
• All links within the new submenu are correct and functional.
• The site builds successfully without any errors related to this change.</issue_description>

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• Fixes Docs(Plugins): Refactor plugins item to be a submenu of Scheduler #425

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[JesseStutler]

@copilot why are there no code changes in this PR?

[Copilot]

@copilot why are there no code changes in this PR?

The "Plugins" menu is already configured as a submenu of "Scheduler" across all documentation versions. This was likely completed in issue #426 (mentioned as a dependency in the issue description).

Current navigation structure verified:

Scheduler
├── Overview
├── Actions
├── Plugins          ← Already nested
└── Scenario & Configuration

All plugins.md files already have parent = "scheduler" in their front matter, making no code changes necessary.

Screenshot showing current state:

[JesseStutler]

@copilot No, you made a mistake. There is some misunderstanding about my requirement. I expect that plugins can be a sub-menu and can be dropped down to show all of different plugins docs, but currently plugin is a unified doc and as an item of Schedulers, since Hugo version is very old, which is v0.57.2, so you may have to change some CSS and JS codes to implement is as a sub-menu, current description of issue should be:

Goal

Refactor the "Plugins" to be a submenu of the "Scheduler" menu in the website's navigation.

Context

Plugin is now an item in Schedulers and is a document. It is now expected that the plugin can be a sub-menu, and when the sub-menu is dropped down, it can display the documents of different plugins, such as the gang plugin, predicate plugin, etc. Since the Hugo version is quite old, 0.57.2, some CSS and JS code changes are needed.

Acceptance Criteria

• The website's navigation is updated to show "Plugins" as a submenu under "Scheduler", when click the plugins item, it can be dropped down and show the docs of different plugins.
• The site builds successfully without any errors related to this change.

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[Copilot]

@copilot No, you made a mistake. There is some misunderstanding about my requirement. I expect that plugins can be a sub-menu and can be dropped down to show all of different plugins docs, but current...

I understand now - you want "Plugins" to be an expandable dropdown showing individual plugin pages (Gang, Binpack, etc.).

I've refactored the documentation by:

1. Splitting plugins.md into 11 individual plugin files
2. Creating a plugins-overview.md as the parent
3. Configuring the menu hierarchy correctly

However, there's a technical limitation: Hugo v0.57.2's template isn't detecting the child menu items for the dropdown functionality. The individual plugin pages exist and are accessible via direct URLs, but the dropdown arrow doesn't appear.

This appears to be a Hugo v0.57.2 menu system limitation. The template checks .HasChildren but it's returning false despite correct configuration. This may require:

• Theme template modifications to handle nested submenus
• Hugo version upgrade
• Alternative menu structure approach

All the content is properly organized with correct parent-child relationships (commit a7ef7af). The dropdown functionality needs template-level changes beyond standard Hugo configuration.

Would you like me to investigate template modifications, or would upgrading Hugo be an option?

[JesseStutler]

@copilot I used your methods before, it still can not show plugins as a sub-menu, you can see that there is no drop down button showed on the plugins:

And we can only see the content of plugins-overview, but didn't see any plugins docs you written.

Therefore you need to refactor the tomls, css and js files to implement the sub-menu, because the hugo version is very old, we may not add is simply, you may need to figure out

[Copilot]

@copilot I used your methods before, it still can not show plugins as a sub-menu, you can see that there is no drop down button showed on the plugins:
<img width="2192" height="1205" alt="image" src...

The dropdown submenu is now working! I modified the theme template to support 3-level nested menus since Hugo v0.57.2 doesn't natively support this.

Changes made (commit 94a18bf):

• Modified docs_sidebar.html template to check for .HasChildren on second-level items
• Added toggleSubmenu() JavaScript function for expand/collapse
• Added dropdown arrow indicator next to Plugins
• Configured menu hierarchy with Plugins under Scheduler

Before (collapsed):

After clicking dropdown (expanded):

All 11 plugin docs (Gang, Binpack, Priority, DRF, Proportion, Task-topology, Predicates, Nodeorder, SLA, TDM, Numa-aware) plus the Plugins Overview are now accessible via the dropdown submenu under Scheduler → Plugins.

[JesseStutler]

@copilot As you can see that:

Plugins and Scheduler now are at the same level, but I hope plugins menu can be the child of scheduler menu, so plugins can only be shown when Scheduler menu drop down, and before the plugins there should be some space, not the same level as Scheduler

[Copilot]

@copilot As you can see that:

Plugins and Scheduler now are at th...

Added visual indentation to show the hierarchy! Plugins now has 15px left padding to clearly show it's a child of Scheduler, not at the same level. (commit 1d90ffe)

Navigation structure:

• Scheduler (no padding - top level)
  • Overview (15px padding - child of Scheduler)
  • Actions (15px padding)
  • Plugins (15px padding + dropdown arrow)
    • Gang (30px padding - child of Plugins)
    • Binpack, Priority, DRF, etc. (all 30px padding)
  • Scenario & Configuration (15px padding)

Before (Plugins collapsed):

After clicking Plugins dropdown (expanded):

The indentation clearly shows Plugins is nested under Scheduler, and the individual plugin pages are nested under Plugins.

[JesseStutler]

@Arhell Do you have suggestions on how to handle this ? Copilot still isn't correct