On 13 January 2014 06:29, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 1/12/2014 10:47 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >> Working across multiple projects has highlighted for me lately how much >> unnecessary overhead we're currently dealing with in core development, >> and how ineffective we are at delegating responsibility for parts of the >> docs that aren't tied directly to the standard library and interpreter >> implementation. > > > As far as I know, we have not had any problems with people given socially > restricted commit privileges over-stepping the restrictions. I think we > should look* for people who would like /Doc/.../*.rst commit privileges. > Even in the Language and Library, such people could commit typo and grammar > changes and technical wording changes submitted or approves by a code > committer. > > * As in post a notice to various python lists. There are multiple > non-committers who have posted articulately to python-list for years. > Perhaps a couple would be interested if they knew they would be welcome. I > would be willing to help people to get started (other than with .rst > markup). > > I would note (to candidates) that doc-only commits are easier than general > commits. Since the doc tools run with installed python, one does not have to > do the extra setup needed to build Python itself. Simple changes that do not > involve .rst markup do not need testing. Markup changes can be tested on the > local machine; there in no need to monitor buildbots. If a News entry in > needed (and I think not for spelling and grammar changes), it goes into > separate section with a low rate of entry and hence a low rate merge > conflicts.
Yes, that's exactly the kind of thing I have in mind. However, there would likely need to be some meta-discussions around structure and authorial "voice", since that's where we sometimes have conflicts even today, and at the moment, how those are handled varies a fair bit depending on who originally authored a piece of text. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
