[IPython-dev] documenting new packages

[Jason Grout]

On 5/7/12 12:23 AM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Paul Ivanov<pivanov314 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Weird, that *is* what git blame and git log show, but was this a typo or
>> does Brian have a time machine we don't know about?
>>
>> dc983636 (Brian E. Granger 2009-09-27 22:57:44 -0700)
>>
>>     As of the 0.11 release of IPython, the top-level packages and modules have
>>     been completely reorganized.  This section describes the purpose of the
>>     top-level IPython subpackages.
>>
>> Given that 0.11 wasn't released until 2011...
>
> That reorganization was done for 0.11 in 2009, so Brian's message
> really meant "for what will become 0.11 when released".  For a while
> we had 0.10 and 0.11.dev living in parallel, with all new work going
> into the .11 dev branch.  But since it took so long for all that
> massive amount of work to stabilize, we kept the 0.10 branch alive in
> the meantime to give users a stable but bugfixed source of updates.
>
> To answer Jason's question, unfortunately that document simply has
> fallen out of maintenance.  I wish we had right now the manpower for a
> significant documentation update sprint, but we just don't at the
> moment (especially with some other burning concerns on our plate).
>

I understand.  Ultimately, we have the code, which is great.  As long as 
you don't mind if we pepper the list with questions every now and then...

It looks like Paul updated that particular page, so that's great!

Jason