From 7d42fb61ae49f0d53e1b11936cedffdd6897e586 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pradyun Gedam <pgedam@bloomberg.net>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 13:03:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add a "Topic Guide" section to the documentation

This section will contain pages that describe a single topic (like
"Authentication", "Caching", etc).
---
 docs/html/index.md        |  1 +
 docs/html/topics/index.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/html/topics/index.md

diff --git a/docs/html/index.md b/docs/html/index.md
index 7cf130c4bb6..9ab5df298be 100644
--- a/docs/html/index.md
+++ b/docs/html/index.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ install packages from the [Python Package Index][pypi] and other indexes.
 getting-started
 installation
 user_guide
+topics/index
 cli/index
 ```
 
diff --git a/docs/html/topics/index.md b/docs/html/topics/index.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b4f984bc756
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/html/topics/index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# Topic Guides
+
+These pages provide detailed information on individual topics.
+
+```{note}
+This section of the documentation is currently being fleshed out. See
+{issue}`9475` for more details.
+```
+
+```{toctree}
+:maxdepth: 1
+```