On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 07:29:59PM -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: > on 12/29/08 5:54 PM, Mark Sapiro said: > > >I am aware the the python.org documentation URLs have all changed. > >Unfortunately, it's not a simple mapping. E.g., the above becomes > ><http://www.python.org/doc/current/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax> > >or equivalently > ><http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax>. > > Part of the problem is that the people who maintain the official > python.org documentation for this information feel that Mailman should > not be referencing their documentation, instead we should have our own > internal version of the same information.
I'd say "why reinvent the wheel"... > So, they don't give a flying flip about what happens to the Mailman > community when they change their documentation or their URLs. Although 10years old, I still think http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI is a well-put document. > Since the release engineer for the next major version of Python is going > to be mentored by Barry Warsaw for that role, perhaps we can get some > sympathy there and hopefully get a bit more cooperation on things like this. Make sense to me. If not/it doesn't happen, perhaps a workaround could be to reference python.org docs via a list.org/pythonref/foo Redirect or similar? -- bit more maint, but could be scripted. -- A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of everything before he destroys it ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
