On May 18, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > At what point should we cut over docs.python.org to point to the Python 3 > documentation by default? Wouldn't this be an easy bit to flip in order to > promote Python 3 more better?
I would like to suggest a less all-or-nothing approach. Just redirecting to Python 3 docs is going to create a lot of support headaches for people trying to help others learn Python. Right now, e.g. <http://docs.python.org/tutorial/index.html> directly renders a page. I suggest that this be changed to a redirect to <http://docs.python.org/release/2.7/tutorial/index.html>. The fact that people can bookmark the "default" version of a document is kind of a bug. The front page, <http://docs.python.org/> could then be changed into a "are you looking for documentation for Python 2 or Python 3?" page, with nice big click targets for each (an initial suggestion: half the page each, split down the middle, but the web design isn't really the important thing for me). If you want to promote python 3 then putting "most recent version" links (for example, see <http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.2.0/api/twisted.internet.defer.inlineCallbacks.html>) across the top of all the old versions would be pretty visible. -glyph _______________________________________________ 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
