docs: bifurcate documentation into user, admin, and developer sections

Major restructuring of documentation to separate concerns:

**New Structure:**
- `/docs/` - User-facing docs (intro, quickstart, databases, using-superset, faq)
- `/admin-docs/` - Administrator docs (installation, configuration, security)
- `/developer-docs/` - Developer docs (contributing, extensions, guidelines, testing)

**Changes:**
- Move installation, configuration, and security docs to admin_docs/
- Move contributing, extensions, guidelines, and testing to developer_docs/
- Rename developer_portal to developer_docs (with underscore to hyphen in URL)
- Add sidebarAdminDocs.js for admin documentation navigation
- Update versions-config.json with new doc sections
- Update docusaurus.config.ts with new plugins and redirects
- Update internal links in versioned docs (6.0.0) to use new paths
- Keep user-facing content (databases, using-superset, faq) in main docs

This separation makes it clearer which documentation is relevant for:
- End users exploring and visualizing data
- Administrators deploying and configuring Superset
- Developers contributing to or extending Superset

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Deployment
Once an extension has been developed, the deployment process involves packaging and uploading it to the host application.
Packaging is handled by the `superset-extensions bundle` command, which:
1. Builds frontend assets using Webpack (with Module Federation configuration).
2. Collects backend Python source files and all necessary resources.
3. Generates a `manifest.json` with build-time metadata, including the contents of `extension.json` and references to built assets.
4. Packages everything into a `.supx` file (a zip archive with a specific structure required by Superset).
To deploy an extension, place the `.supx` file in the extensions directory configured via `EXTENSIONS_PATH` in your `superset_config.py`:
``` python
EXTENSIONS_PATH = "/path/to/extensions"
```
During application startup, Superset automatically discovers and loads all `.supx` files from this directory:
1. Scans the configured directory for `.supx` files.
2. Validates each file is a properly formatted zip archive.
3. Extracts and validates the extension manifest and metadata.
4. Loads the extension, making it available for use.
This file-based approach simplifies deployment in containerized environments and enables version control of extensions alongside infrastructure configuration.