[Python-Dev] Moving the developer docs?

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Thu Sep 23 13:45:04 CEST 2010


  On 23/09/2010 11:11, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:29:51 -0400
> Fred Drake<fdrake at acm.org>  wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Brett Cannon<brett at python.org>  wrote:
>>> the first thing on the agenda is a complete rewrite of the developer
>>> docs and moving them into the Doc/ directory
>> I'd like to know why you think moving the developer docs into the
>> CPython tree makes sense.
>>
>> My own thought here is that they're not specific to the version of
>> Python, though some of the documentation deals with the group of
>> specific branches being maintained.
> Many parts of the library docs aren't version-specific either :)
> The dev docs may differ slightly from one version to another, for
> example if a version introduces some new possibilities for tooling, or
> far-reaching implementation changes (think Unladen Swallow).
>
> The practicality argument of being able to edit those docs without
> having to master a separate (pydotorg) workflow sounds quite strong to
> me.

+1

Michael

> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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