[Python-Dev] Moving the developer docs? (original) (raw)

Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Thu Sep 23 12:12:17 CEST 2010

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

That's right.  It is true that it isn't branch-specific information, and that does cause a little bit of irritation for me too, but neither is Misc/developers.txt or Misc/maintainers.rst.

Agreed. I'd rather those were elsewhere as well, but I was paying less attention at the time.

Of course, we might consider a separate HG repository (I'm all in favor of many small repos, instead of a gigantic sandbox one).  The downside is that I really like the developer docs at docs.python.org, and it would complicate the build process a bit.

Perhaps someone here knows enough about our documentation toolchain to figure out a way to generate a link from the docs to developer docs on the website. :-)

I expect only a very small part of the audience for the general Python documentation & CPython docs are particularly interested in the development process we use, and sending them to the website from a convenient link is not a bad thing. We won't even need a new repository to do that.

  -Fred

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