[Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
[Aside to Guido: Oops, I think I accidentally sent you a contentless
reply.  Sorry!]

As a suggestion, I think this is relevant to everybody who might be
writing a PEP, so I'm cross-posting to Python-Dev.  Probably no
discussion is needed, but Reply-To is set to Python-Ideas.

On Python-Ideas, Guido van Rossum writes:

 > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:

 > > Fifth draft of the PEP. Re-worded a few things slightly
 > > to hopefully make the proposal a bit clearer up front.
 > 
 > Wow, how I long for the days when we routinely put things like this
 > under revision control so its easy to compare versions.

FWIW, Google Docs is almost there.  Working with Brett et al on early
drafts of PEP 0374 was easy and pleasant, and Google Docs gives
control of access to the document to the editor, not the Subversion
admin.  The ability to make comments that are not visible to
non-editors was nice.  Now that it's in Subversion it's much less
convenient for me (a non-committer).  I actually have to *decide* to
work on it, rather than simply raising a browser window, hitting
"refresh" and fixing a typo or two (then back to "day job" work).

The main problem with Google Docs is that is records a revision
automatically every so often (good) but doesn't prune the automatic
commits (possibly hard to do efficiently) OR mark user saves specially
(easy to do).  This lack of marking "important" revisions makes the
diff functionality kind of tedious.

I don't know how automatic the conversion to reST was, but the PEP in
Subversion is a quite accurate conversion of the Google Doc version.

Overall, I recommend use of Google Docs for "Python-Ideas" level of
PEP drafts.
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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-19 Thread Collin Winter
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
 wrote:
> On Python-Ideas, Guido van Rossum writes:
>
>  > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:
>
>  > > Fifth draft of the PEP. Re-worded a few things slightly
>  > > to hopefully make the proposal a bit clearer up front.
>  >
>  > Wow, how I long for the days when we routinely put things like this
>  > under revision control so its easy to compare versions.
>
> FWIW, Google Docs is almost there.  Working with Brett et al on early
> drafts of PEP 0374 was easy and pleasant, and Google Docs gives
> control of access to the document to the editor, not the Subversion
> admin.  The ability to make comments that are not visible to
> non-editors was nice.  Now that it's in Subversion it's much less
> convenient for me (a non-committer).  I actually have to *decide* to
> work on it, rather than simply raising a browser window, hitting
> "refresh" and fixing a typo or two (then back to "day job" work).
>
> The main problem with Google Docs is that is records a revision
> automatically every so often (good) but doesn't prune the automatic
> commits (possibly hard to do efficiently) OR mark user saves specially
> (easy to do).  This lack of marking "important" revisions makes the
> diff functionality kind of tedious.
>
> I don't know how automatic the conversion to reST was, but the PEP in
> Subversion is a quite accurate conversion of the Google Doc version.
>
> Overall, I recommend use of Google Docs for "Python-Ideas" level of
> PEP drafts.

Rietveld would also be a good option: it offers more at-will revision
control (rather than "whenever Google Docs decides"), allows you to
attach comments to the revisions, and will give you nice diffs between
PEP iterations.

Collin
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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Georg Brandl
Stephen J. Turnbull schrieb:

> FWIW, Google Docs is almost there.  Working with Brett et al on early
> drafts of PEP 0374 was easy and pleasant, and Google Docs gives
> control of access to the document to the editor, not the Subversion
> admin.  The ability to make comments that are not visible to
> non-editors was nice.  Now that it's in Subversion it's much less
> convenient for me (a non-committer).  I actually have to *decide* to
> work on it, rather than simply raising a browser window, hitting
> "refresh" and fixing a typo or two (then back to "day job" work).
> 
> The main problem with Google Docs is that is records a revision
> automatically every so often (good) but doesn't prune the automatic
> commits (possibly hard to do efficiently) OR mark user saves specially
> (easy to do).  This lack of marking "important" revisions makes the
> diff functionality kind of tedious.
> 
> I don't know how automatic the conversion to reST was, but the PEP in
> Subversion is a quite accurate conversion of the Google Doc version.

The Python Wiki should also be considered:

* Comparing versions is easy, and versions are only saved on "Save"

* It supports reStructuredText, so there is no need for conversion
  afterwards.

For PEPs drafted exclusively by committers, SVN is of course still the
best and simplest option.

Georg

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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Georg Brandl  gmx.net> writes:
> 
> The Python Wiki should also be considered:
> 
> * Comparing versions is easy, and versions are only saved on "Save"
> 
> * It supports reStructuredText, so there is no need for conversion
>   afterwards.

And it's vendor-neutral :-)


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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Antoine Pitrou  wrote:
> Georg Brandl  gmx.net> writes:
>>
>> The Python Wiki should also be considered:
>>
>> * Comparing versions is easy, and versions are only saved on "Save"
>>
>> * It supports reStructuredText, so there is no need for conversion
>>   afterwards.
>
> And it's vendor-neutral :-)

Touche.

I still don't like wikis for this purpose very much -- a person
editing effectively grabs a lock on the whole file. (Wikimedia
addresses this to some extend by allowing sections to be edited, but I
don't see this feature in moinmoin yet, and I don't see us switching.)
Also there is no access control -- anyone who can create a login can
edit.

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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread William Dode
On 20-02-2009, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Antoine Pitrou  wrote:
>> Georg Brandl  gmx.net> writes:
>>>
>>> The Python Wiki should also be considered:
>>>
>>> * Comparing versions is easy, and versions are only saved on "Save"
>>>
>>> * It supports reStructuredText, so there is no need for conversion
>>>   afterwards.
>>
>> And it's vendor-neutral :-)
>
> Touche.
>
> I still don't like wikis for this purpose very much -- a person
> editing effectively grabs a lock on the whole file. (Wikimedia
> addresses this to some extend by allowing sections to be edited, but I
> don't see this feature in moinmoin yet, and I don't see us switching.)
> Also there is no access control -- anyone who can create a login can
> edit.

Isn't it the good oportunity to try a DVCS ?

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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM, William Dode  wrote:
> On 20-02-2009, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Antoine Pitrou  wrote:
>>> Georg Brandl  gmx.net> writes:

 The Python Wiki should also be considered:

 * Comparing versions is easy, and versions are only saved on "Save"

 * It supports reStructuredText, so there is no need for conversion
   afterwards.
>>>
>>> And it's vendor-neutral :-)
>>
>> Touche.
>>
>> I still don't like wikis for this purpose very much -- a person
>> editing effectively grabs a lock on the whole file. (Wikimedia
>> addresses this to some extend by allowing sections to be edited, but I
>> don't see this feature in moinmoin yet, and I don't see us switching.)
>> Also there is no access control -- anyone who can create a login can
>> edit.
>
> Isn't it the good oportunity to try a DVCS ?

That was my original suggestion, yes, but Stephen Turnbull suggested
Google Docs instead.

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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Barry Warsaw

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On Feb 20, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:


Isn't it the good oportunity to try a DVCS ?


That was my original suggestion, yes, but Stephen Turnbull suggested
Google Docs instead.


I found Google docs to be both very helpful and very painful.  It was  
helpful because it supports multiple simultaneous editors pretty  
nicely.  It was painful because I was constantly battered by  
inexplicable bugs (e.g. at one point my ability to add comments just  
went away).  Maybe the closest home grown solution would be gobby,  
though the participants would have to manage persistency themselves.


A DVCS would probably work too, given these are almost entirely text  
files.


Barry

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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Summary:

Google Docs is easy to use, featureful, and here now.  Since AIUI the
PEPs eventually need to be hosted at python.org, I see Google Docs as
an immediate replacement for email transmission of early drafts of
PEPs, not as a permanent solution to PEP storage.

William Dode writes:

 > Isn't it the good oportunity to try a DVCS ?

I thought about that (and if I agreed I wouldn't have posted), but
there are reasons why Guido is "looking forward to" rather than
"calling for volunteers".  ISTM that a DVCS is just a wiki where you
can't find stuff unless you're told where it is.  It will take time.

What Google Docs provided for me was an infrastructure that
accomplished several useful services automatically, and stayed out of
my face (except for the lack of pruning of uninteresting revisions).

IMO the features we want are

(1) a permanent, easily computed URN for the draft document repo
-- DVCS can do this, with straightforward support from python.org
-- wiki can do this as a convention such as reserving PEP_0374 for
   final doc with PEP_0374_draft for development
(2) editor control over access to individual documents
-- AFAIK there's no mechanism for this at python.org, so to use a
   DVCS would require developing one
-- no mechanism for this in most wikis AFAIK (but ZWiki can do it)
-- it could be argued that the current convention of people
   staying out of each others' space would work, but what about
   non-committers (like me)?
(3) automatic merging of concurrent work
-- DVCS does this, but needs to be pushed afterward
-- most wikis can't do this in the framework of a single document,
   but you could organize the doc by sections for drafting
(4) automatic saves of intermediate work
-- at the tweak stage, the effort to save, commit, and push to a
   DVCS outweighs the effort to tweak, costing a lot of polish IME
-- wikis don't do this, and I wonder whether people would be
   willing to save unpolished work, or leave it sitting in the
   browser "until later"
(5) a recorded out of band channel for the editors (when plural) to
comment
-- "XXX" can work but when it's scutwork (eg, researching URLs or
   reworking sections to have parallel organization) it's ugly and
   distracting for non-editors to read; DVCS by itself provides no
   such medium, one would need to be developed
-- ditto wikis (although Wikipedia has its linked discussion
   channels, and this could be emulated on any wiki by a
   convention such as PEP_0374_talk, which would have the
   advantage that interested non-editors could look at the
   comments and contribute URLs and ideas, etc)
-- for non-trivial work, mail/IRC doesn't really cut it; you're
   more likely to make the indicated tweak if you're working on
   the document anyway, mail/IRC is likely to be focused elsewhere
   and the cost of changing focus too high to do it *now*

(1) and (2) are obvious, I think, and I don't know how much (3) really
matters when the editors are a small group.  But I was surprised by
how much (4), and (5) contributed to my experience working on PEP
0374.  Maybe Brett, Barry, or Alexandre would like to comment?

I note that the FSF had a rather complex system for its collaborative
development of 3d generation licenses.  I don't think that's necessary
for most PEPs.
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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread rdmurray

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 12:56, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

(4) automatic saves of intermediate work
   -- at the tweak stage, the effort to save, commit, and push to a
  DVCS outweighs the effort to tweak, costing a lot of polish IME
   -- wikis don't do this, and I wonder whether people would be
  willing to save unpolished work, or leave it sitting in the
  browser "until later"


Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a
different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to
be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case.
For the DVCS, I'd just write a little script that would (1) update (2)
open the editor on the file (3) do the commit/push dance when the file
was closed.  So for me it would be as easy as editing the file locally.

So for my work style, a DVCS would be the biggest win.

--RDM
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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Jeff Hall
> Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a
> different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to
> be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case.
> For the DVCS, I'd just write a little script that would (1) update (2)
> open the editor on the file (3) do the commit/push dance when the file
> was closed.  So for me it would be as easy as editing the file locally.
>
> So for my work style, a DVCS would be the biggest win.
>
> --RDM


That's funny because I would expect that for most people it's the exact
opposite... just create a gmail account... boom, done... I'm not necessarily
advocating that but just saying that IMO, most people will find google docs
to be the "fastest" and "easiest" solution.

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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread William Dode
On 21-02-2009, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Summary:
>
> Google Docs is easy to use, featureful, and here now.  Since AIUI the
> PEPs eventually need to be hosted at python.org, I see Google Docs as
> an immediate replacement for email transmission of early drafts of
> PEPs, not as a permanent solution to PEP storage.
>
> William Dode writes:
>
> > Isn't it the good oportunity to try a DVCS ?

My point was more to try a DVCS to give food to the 374e pep than to 
resolv the issues you mention.

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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20090220 18:51], Guido van Rossum (gu...@python.org) wrote:
>I still don't like wikis for this purpose very much -- a person
>editing effectively grabs a lock on the whole file.

Imagine a Wiki with a cross-polination of Etherpad [1], that would resolve
that complaint.

[1] http://etherpad.com/

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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread rdmurray

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 01:12, Jeff Hall wrote:

Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a
different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to
be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case.
For the DVCS, I'd just write a little script that would (1) update (2)
open the editor on the file (3) do the commit/push dance when the file
was closed.  So for me it would be as easy as editing the file locally.

So for my work style, a DVCS would be the biggest win.

--RDM


That's funny because I would expect that for most people it's the exact
opposite... just create a gmail account... boom, done... I'm not necessarily
advocating that but just saying that IMO, most people will find google docs
to be the "fastest" and "easiest" solution.


The ease of creating a gmail account has nothing to do with the point
to which I was responding (context which is lost from your reply).
That's setup.  I was responding to a point talking about in-the-moment
workflow.  A browser and a GUI javascript program are slower than a unix
command line based editor such as vim or emacs both to open up and to use.
Thus for me, by using a script to automate the part that the OP suggested
would slow the dvcs user down (the update/commit/push cycle), I make
the dvcs in-the-moment workflow much faster _for me_ than Google Docs.

As I said it's a matter of personal style.  Some people _will_ find
Google Docs easier and more productive than a dvcs.  My point was that
not all people will.

--RDM
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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM,   wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 01:12, Jeff Hall wrote:
>>>
>>> Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a
>>> different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to
>>> be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case.
>>> For the DVCS, I'd just write a little script that would (1) update (2)
>>> open the editor on the file (3) do the commit/push dance when the file
>>> was closed.  So for me it would be as easy as editing the file locally.
>>>
>>> So for my work style, a DVCS would be the biggest win.
>>>
>>> --RDM
>>
>> That's funny because I would expect that for most people it's the exact
>> opposite... just create a gmail account... boom, done... I'm not
>> necessarily
>> advocating that but just saying that IMO, most people will find google
>> docs
>> to be the "fastest" and "easiest" solution.
>
> The ease of creating a gmail account has nothing to do with the point
> to which I was responding (context which is lost from your reply).
> That's setup.  I was responding to a point talking about in-the-moment
> workflow.  A browser and a GUI javascript program are slower than a unix
> command line based editor such as vim or emacs both to open up and to use.
> Thus for me, by using a script to automate the part that the OP suggested
> would slow the dvcs user down (the update/commit/push cycle), I make
> the dvcs in-the-moment workflow much faster _for me_ than Google Docs.
>
> As I said it's a matter of personal style.  Some people _will_ find
> Google Docs easier and more productive than a dvcs.  My point was that
> not all people will.

That's a discussion that can never come to a decent conclusion. We
will never find a solution that works for *everyone*, and IMO we don't
need to bend over backwards to try. I don't doubt for a second that
for *most* people the barrier to using Google Docs is less than the
barrier to using a DVCS, even if when you take a sampling of hard core
open source developers that might not be so clear-cut.

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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread William Dode
On 21-02-2009, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM,   wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 01:12, Jeff Hall wrote:

 Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a
 different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to
 be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case.
 For the DVCS, I'd just write a little script that would (1) update (2)
 open the editor on the file (3) do the commit/push dance when the file
 was closed.  So for me it would be as easy as editing the file locally.

 So for my work style, a DVCS would be the biggest win.

 --RDM
>>>
>>> That's funny because I would expect that for most people it's the exact
>>> opposite... just create a gmail account... boom, done... I'm not
>>> necessarily
>>> advocating that but just saying that IMO, most people will find google
>>> docs
>>> to be the "fastest" and "easiest" solution.
>>
>> The ease of creating a gmail account has nothing to do with the point
>> to which I was responding (context which is lost from your reply).
>> That's setup.  I was responding to a point talking about in-the-moment
>> workflow.  A browser and a GUI javascript program are slower than a unix
>> command line based editor such as vim or emacs both to open up and to use.
>> Thus for me, by using a script to automate the part that the OP suggested
>> would slow the dvcs user down (the update/commit/push cycle), I make
>> the dvcs in-the-moment workflow much faster _for me_ than Google Docs.
>>
>> As I said it's a matter of personal style.  Some people _will_ find
>> Google Docs easier and more productive than a dvcs.  My point was that
>> not all people will.
>
> That's a discussion that can never come to a decent conclusion. We
> will never find a solution that works for *everyone*

Maybe not for everyone but maybe a DVCS could work for everythings.  
I mean, work for the code, for the doc, for the peps, for the website...  
And also the same tools for core devs and for occasional contributors.

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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread Barry Warsaw

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On Feb 20, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:


(1) and (2) are obvious, I think, and I don't know how much (3) really
matters when the editors are a small group.  But I was surprised by
how much (4), and (5) contributed to my experience working on PEP
0374.  Maybe Brett, Barry, or Alexandre would like to comment?


My only comment is that Google docs did not always work correctly for  
me.  E.g. at some point toward the end of the process, I lost the  
ability to add comments.  But hey, it's a big pile of JavaScript so I  
can understand it'll be buggy. :)


When it did work, it was pretty convenient.  I don't think too many  
PEPs will need that kind of high bandwidth collaborative environment,  
but it's nice to have when you need it.


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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-26 Thread Leif Walsh
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
 wrote:
> Overall, I recommend use of Google Docs for "Python-Ideas" level of
> PEP drafts.

+1!  I also like Google Sites for collaborative editing.

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Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-26 Thread Aahz
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote:
>
> Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a
> different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to
> be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case.

For me, the big barrier to Google docs is the requirement to fire up a
GUI browser and log into Google.
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