Stop pasting the “latest” redirect. Install it.

Versioned Antora components leave an awkward URL hole: visitors type /component-name/ and expect the newest docs. Core documents the extension snippet. Sites copy it. Then they drift. Then someone ships a broken redirect and nobody remembers which playbook owns the paste.

alias-component-to-latest is that snippet as a package. Same behavior as the official docs use case: alias the component root to the start page of the latest version. Install from GitHub, register under antora.extensions, move on.

This is the supplemental pattern in miniature. The idea is already documented upstream. The distribution problem is not. Packaging turns a tribal ritual into a dependency with a version. When Antora core gains an opt-in for the same behavior, sites can migrate; until then, the extension is the clean path.

Prefer commenting on the existing upstream thread — antora/antora#291 — over opening duplicate issues. One conversation. One eventual opt-in. A package in the meantime.