Consider the use of subprojects in Read The Docs

[jprestop]

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In the 20241105 METplus Engineering Meeting, we discussed whether or not we should make each METplus component a subproject of METplus in ReadTheDocs. e.g. https://met.readthedocs.io/ becomes https://metplus.readthedocs.io/projects/met (but https://met.readthedocs.io/ still exists, it just redirects to the other site).

Searches on the parent project are supposed to include results from its subprojects, however in a quick search for MET via METplus, that did not seem to be the case. Further test this functionality.

@georgemccabe mentioned if we proceed with using subprojects, it would be good to include links in the table of contents to the other METplus components documentation, if possible. We don't want the documentation to be overwhelming for the user and may need to be more streamlined (include @j-opatz in this conversation as he has the greatest knowledge of feedback from users and the focus group).

It was noted that team members were too busy with the upcoming release to be able to give it the required attention. We decided to remove MET as a subproject of METplus for now and reconsider with the next release.

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