Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Rocco Moretti wrote: > > >>Something a simple as allowing doc bugs to be submitted from a webform >>w/o login would reduce the barrier to contribute. - Increasing the size >>of the "About" text wouldn't hurt either. (To be honest, I've never >>noticed that text before, and it never occurred to me look at the >>"About" page for information on error reports.) > > > the useredit approach I'm using over at the librarybook site works > pretty well. for example, if you go to > > http://effbot.org/librarybook/mailbox.htm > > and click "suggest changes" at the bottom, you can edit the page > source, preview the changes, and generate a patch when you're > done, all without signing up or logging in. > > (unfortunately, Python's documentation is written in LaTeX, using > a rather advanced tool chain to get from sources to HTML, so the > librarybook approach won't really work "out of the box") > That's true, but (as I mentioned a few minutes ago in another post) the docs team will happily accept plain text of that's all the contributor can provide. It's *that* fact that needs to become more obvious.
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