On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 14:41, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> >> Well it *is* inconvenient in the case of maintainers.rst, which is >> often consulted casually for daily bug tracker work. Grepping >> Misc/maintainers.rst is much easier than first having to find again >> where your checkout of the devguide is, and ensuring it is up-to-date. >> >> Also, I see no need to put the maintainers list in the dev guide, >> actually. > > Every time I see someone syncing the version-independent maintainers > list across branches a little alarm bell goes off in my head to say > that file should be somewhere other than the main source tree.
Ditto for me. > > It's also quite possible that once the maintainer list is part of the > dev guide, triagers will start using the official copy on python.org > and the search function in their web browser rather than running grep > over a source checkout. > > So moving the version-independent stuff certainly makes sense, but the > stuff that is dependent on a particular version's build system is more > questionable. What may make sense is for the devguide to describe the > general contents of the files in Misc, but point out that for any > given version, the version specific details in Misc take precedence. > I am not describing what is in Misc. It comes down to a question of whether any core dev-specific stuff should be in Misc that is not a configuration file or not. I say no, that the directory should contain stuff that applies to everyone and not specifically to core devs. -Brett -Brett > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > 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/brett%40python.org > _______________________________________________ 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