On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Sep 23, 2010, at 08:40 AM, Georg Brandl 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. >> >>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. > > Ideally, I would really like to see the developer docs live outside the > CPython source repository. There's no reason to tie the dev docs to CPython's > svn merge policies, write acls, or release schedules. Given the way > docs.python.org is stitched together, and the fact that we (still ;) haven't > moved to a dvcs, this may not be feasible. > > These docs are better off in the wiki than in the source tree. > > -Barry
-1 on wiki; wikis are where good information goes off to die. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
