[SciPy-dev] Docstring editing request on SciPy Doc Wiki

Stéfan van der Walt stefan at sun.ac.za
Mon May 19 11:50:21 EDT 2008


2008/5/19 Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:
>
>> For developers: please don't change docstrings directly in the source
>> tree, it makes merging difficult.  If you urgently need a change to go
>> in, make it on the wiki and let me know.
>
> Ooh. Not good. It's not time-critical, but this needs to be fixed.

It's not a train smash -- but it causes some patches to be rejected.
I don't think this is something that can be "fixed"; it's inherently a
merge problem.

Regards
Stéfan



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