[Python-Dev] FAQ Horribly Out Of Date

Greg Stein gstein@lyra.org
Mon, 1 Jan 2001 19:34:31 -0800


On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 03:35:27PM -0500, Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 02:49:24PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >But I would be very hesitant to drop the notion of maintaining the FAQ
> >as a group collaboration project.  There's nothing wrong with the FAQ
> >wizard except that the password (Spam) should be made publicly known...
> 
> Why multiply the number of mechanisms required to maintain things?  We
> already use CVS for other documentation; why not use it for the FAQ as 
> well?  

That would limit the updaters to just those with CVS access. As Guido just
pointed out, Bjorn made a bunch of updates. And he didn't need CVS to do
that...

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/