Re: [pydotorg-www] reference to optimizer.html?

2022-03-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
x the elements of URLs. I'll keep poking around the web to > see if I can find it somewhere. Just a quick follow up. I checked out the legacy svn repo and found a reference to optimizer.html, but it was to the original (now defunct) version on musi-cal.com. So, no Google Drive

Re: [pydotorg-www] reference to optimizer.html?

2022-03-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
.org "optimizer.html" so either the references aren't actually anywhere on python.org or Google Search doesn't index the elements of URLs. I'll keep poking around the web to see if I can find it somewhere. Skip On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 6:36 AM Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:

[pydotorg-www] reference to optimizer.html?

2022-03-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
ference in PEP 339 to the defunct foretec.com website. I'll pursue correction of its link separately. Thanks, Skip Montanaro ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

[pydotorg-www] Bogus wiki.python.org attachment on BeginnersGuide

2020-03-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
succession. I don't know if the old one was bogus, but the new one certainly seems to be. It's a JPEG with a .pdf extension. Someone probably should check it out and perhaps restore the old attachment or remove it altogether. Skip ___ pydotorg-www ma

Re: [pydotorg-www] Steering search engines and users away from 3.0/3.1 docs?

2016-11-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Thanks for the pointers, MAL. The behavior of the website suggests that PR has been applied already. I opened a new issue: https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/1030 Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org https://mai

Re: [pydotorg-www] Steering search engines and users away from 3.0/3.1 docs?

2016-11-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
Should I open a ticket on some issue tracker so this doesn't get lost? bugs.python.org seems wrong (language, not website), and mail to d...@python.org seems to be related to the documentation itself, not the mechanics of its presentation through the web.

Re: [pydotorg-www] Steering search engines and users away from 3.0/3.1 docs?

2016-11-01 Thread Skip Montanaro
a bit further down, then the v3 version of the quick stdlib tour is the last hit on page one. If someone's going to mess with robots.txt, maybe cast the same spell for 2.[0-5] (and 6?) as you do for 3.0 and 3.1. Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list

[pydotorg-www] Steering search engines and users away from 3.0/3.1 docs?

2016-10-31 Thread Skip Montanaro
should perhaps redirect to the supported https://docs.python.org/3 pages, at least unless URLs carry some sort of "yes-damnit!" parameter. Maybe the robots.txt file should "disallow" traversal of the /3.0 and /3.1 trees as well. Just a

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: Gateway Timeout on Python wiki?

2015-01-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:21 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > It should be a little better now. The VM received more RAM to play > with. Yes, it seems to be much better than yesterday. Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org

[pydotorg-www] Fwd: Gateway Timeout on Python wiki?

2015-01-05 Thread Skip Montanaro
FYI. Wiki seems pretty much unresponsive (0845-ish here in Chicago - I think 1445-ish UTC). Skip -- Forwarded message -- From: Skip Montanaro Date: Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:44 AM Subject: Gateway Timeout on Python wiki? To: "webmas...@python.org" Any idea what'

Re: [pydotorg-www] Wiki ACLs

2012-12-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > Yes, there likely is. I'm no longer all that conversant in the > language of MoinMoin acls though. You'd probably have to create a > TrainingUsers page or something, add a bullet list of qualified users, > then

Re: [pydotorg-www] Wiki ACLs

2012-12-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
f I have a few minutes this evening (and nobody beats me to it) I will try to cook something up. Skip On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Aahz wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Marilyn Davis >> wrote: >>> >>> I

Re: [pydotorg-www] Questions about the code located on your Wiki

2012-01-11 Thread skip
Michael> I would definitely be in favour of automatic licensing of all Michael> content posted to the wiki, but I agree that it's not something Michael> the web team can do unilateraly. +1 Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing lis

[pydotorg-www] Asking questions on wiki pages - unproductive?

2011-12-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
answer is posted. I made a simple edit to the above page. Only Fred Drake and Mats Wichmann were notified of the change. Unless the original poster comes back and checks periodically, he'll never know if the question is answered. How do we (or should we) get people to stop this

[pydotorg-www] Help! BlockedUsersGroup page is gone from wiki

2011-12-21 Thread skip
at gave me an internal server error. Radomir, are you out there to do a quick triage of this problem? Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] FWD: Python 3 Poll

2011-12-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
borrowed Guido's time machine. It's already available for Python 3. Would you like to download Python 3 now?" Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Internal Server Error while reverting spam

2011-12-02 Thread skip
Paul> Doesn't wiki.jython.org direct you to the Jython Wiki? Indeed it does. I didn't know it existed. Thx, Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Internal Server Error while reverting spam

2011-12-01 Thread skip
ant to dive into. Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Internal Server Error while reverting spam

2011-11-30 Thread skip
tterns in LocalBadContent back in October. His comment was Added some link-shorteners. These should never be used in this environment. I'll leave it for him to elaborate. I've CC'd him in case he's not on the pydotorg-www list. Skip _

[pydotorg-www] Internal Server Error while reverting spam

2011-11-30 Thread Skip Montanaro
Trying to back out the latest (spam) change to the MelbournePUG wiki page I'm getting an Internal Server Error response. I'd go look up the error message but I can never figure out where the log files live. Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing lis

[pydotorg-www] Problem with gate_news

2011-10-17 Thread skip
Usenet news server, but don't know what server that might be and haven't had time to look into it yet. If anybody here can provide some clues, please chime in. I'll try to take a look this evening. Skip Cron> Traceback (most recent call last): Cron> File "/

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: Broken link on python.org

2011-10-14 Thread skip
a bit hesitant to modify something which seems to be someone else's creative work. Should we try to contact Jeffrey Elkner first before just making the necessary change? Skip Guido> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:27 AM, wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Re: [pydotorg-www] Please put a conference listing immediately

2011-09-06 Thread skip
>>>>> "skip" == skip writes: David> Please put up a listing immediately for the PyGotham conference, David> which is being held Sept 16-17 in New York. There will be about David> 200 attendees and we plan to have this an annual David> event

Re: [pydotorg-www] Please put a conference listing immediately

2011-09-06 Thread skip
David> Please put up a listing immediately for the PyGotham conference, David> which is being held Sept 16-17 in New York. There will be about David> 200 attendees and we plan to have this an annual David> event. www.pygotham.org I added this to the new index. -- Sk

Re: [pydotorg-www] Chinese Beginner's Guide to Python

2011-08-21 Thread skip
BeginnersGuideChinese and added appropriate links. We should probably try and wrangle up some people who will keep the various Chinese language resources in shape. Any ideas? Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

[pydotorg-www] Chinese Beginner's Guide to Python

2011-08-19 Thread skip
hings properly (create a second page containing his translation and reference it from the above page and the ChineseLanguage page). If I don't see that the page has been properly done in the next couple days, I'll revert things again and block his user. -- Skip Montanaro - s...@p

Re: [pydotorg-www] PyPI delete request

2011-08-16 Thread skip
skip> FYI. Also opened a case on SF (forgot that's how the PyPI folks like things): https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3392683&group_id=66150&atid=513503 S skip> Skip >>>>> "AlannY" == AlannY writes: AlannY>

[pydotorg-www] PyPI delete request

2011-08-16 Thread skip
FYI. Skip >>>>> "AlannY" == AlannY writes: AlannY> Please, delete my PyPi account. I'm not using PyPi, no data. I registered long ago and, seems, by accident. AlannY> Login: AlannY AlannY> Email: m...@alanny.ru _

[pydotorg-www] Has Alex Martelli disappeared?

2011-08-09 Thread skip
alea...@gmail.com Message will be retried for 5 more day(s) I tried sending him a message via LinkedIn but have not received a response. Does anyone know if Alex has moved to another mail hosting service? Should his python.org subscriptions be canceled?

[pydotorg-www] GuiProgramming wiki page acl

2011-08-09 Thread Skip Montanaro
k out the admins. Radomir, perhaps you can double-check that and trim the acl if necessary. Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Managing infrastructure information: PSF Systems Trac instance

2011-08-04 Thread skip
ngle mailing list, python-dev, for discussing all concrete matters of Python development. I can't see that the web sites need more than that. Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Managing infrastructure information: PSF Systems Trac instance

2011-08-04 Thread skip
ail.python.org. Does the above include that info? Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] highly suspicious inbound link from your website - please explain

2011-08-01 Thread skip
Can someone from the website team take a look at this? I'm not sure what a chm file even is. When I tried to visit that URL it killed the Chrome process running the tab. Thanks, Skip >>>>> "Joe" == Joe Hoppe writes: Joe> Hello, Joe> I have been ha

Re: [pydotorg-www] Repeated outages of python.org

2011-07-28 Thread skip
Richard> What makes you believe you can confirm that at some point in Richard> the past couple years none of them were scripts? You could all be scripts now, but weren't back then... (I've met you as well.) :-) Skip ___ pydo

Re: [pydotorg-www] Repeated outages of python.org

2011-07-27 Thread skip
rsonally met Barry, Martin and Sean (at least, maybe Marc-Andre as well), so I can confirm that at some point in the past couple years none of them were scripts. Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Repeated outages of python.org

2011-07-25 Thread skip
ers email alias, it doesn't depend on any of the python.org infrastructure. Presumably, in the face of a significant outage people might still be able to find what they are looking for. Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

[pydotorg-www] Errors when attempting to undo wiki spam

2011-07-05 Thread Skip Montanaro
mess (a perfect place to hide spammish links), can someone fix the wiki so it doesn't crash in this situation but actually displays the message about the failed edit? Thx, Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] PyCon DE 2011 announcement on home page

2011-06-17 Thread skip
>> PyCon DE 2010 Call for Papers Mike> Of course it is 2011 NOT 2010. Hence: Didn't you get some time-machine-facilitated submissions from Guido and Barry? Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://m

[pydotorg-www] Link In The About Page (fwd)

2011-05-26 Thread skip
FYI. Skip --- Begin Message --- Dear Webmaster, I noticed that the link to Pollenation (http://www.pollenation.net/) mentioned in the About the Website section ( http://www.python.org/about/website/) redirects to an unrelated domain ( http://www.tastecard.co.uk/). I was wondering if we still

[pydotorg-www] Spam on Jython wiki

2011-05-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
s ago which prevented new users from posting for a short amount of time (just a couple minutes as I recall). Could we easily apply a similar check to our MoinMoin instances? Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/ma

[pydotorg-www] broken link (fwd)

2011-05-07 Thread skip
-guidelines.txt It dates from 1998 and was originally meant for posts to the comp.lang.python and comp.lang.python.announce newsgroups. It probably needs a bit of work to be brought up-to-date for the current announce list, but still has some useful bits. Skip

Re: [pydotorg-www] Jython wiki is still getting spammed

2011-04-26 Thread skip
Paul> But maybe better textchas might be the answer - the Python Wiki Paul> seems to manage just fine on that basis. Aren't the questions/answers the same for both wikis? Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@pyth

[pydotorg-www] Jython wiki is still getting spammed

2011-04-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
the TextChas or they aren't being applied when they should be. (I get prompted whenever I edit the LocalBadContent page, so they are active in certain circumstances.) Can someone look into this? I don't have the time nor the expertise with more recent releases

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: broken link

2011-04-16 Thread skip
David> localhost:8005 (or whatever port it gives). No, just "make" and "make rss", then (this is a Mac) "open out/index.html". "make serve" works much better. I'll try to remember that in the future. Thx, Skip ___

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: broken link

2011-04-16 Thread skip
but the "Python course in Bioinformatics" document is not Michael> available anymore. I fixed this by deleting that link and checking in the file. I rebuilt the site but can't really view the pages locally. It's like there are no css files or images. Skip

Re: [pydotorg-www] apache on ximinez

2011-04-06 Thread skip
> "Martin" == Martin v Löwis writes: Martin> Am 06.04.2011 10:38, schrieb Richard Jones: >> I've had to kick apache on ximinez in the head twice in the last hour >> or two. It just stopped responding. Martin> I did it also a number of times. I sense a pattern, but I can't qu

Re: [pydotorg-www] FWD: EDU-SIG Page Typo

2011-03-27 Thread skip
et rapidly out-of-date, and the group of people who manage the website is pretty small. The sig pages, in particular, have traditionally gotten outdated. I do see that Andre made some edits about six weeks ago. At this point, I'm not going to touch anything, and let Andre decide what t

Re: [pydotorg-www] FWD: EDU-SIG Page Typo

2011-03-26 Thread skip
on the edu-sig page were moved to the Wiki, probably somewhere under the Beginner's Guide: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide Eric, would you be interested in taking that on? If so, let me know when you have copied the content to the wiki and

[pydotorg-www] Can we somehow safely delete bogus page revisions in the wiki?

2011-03-25 Thread skip
he Comment column to wrap ? Thx, Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: Accepted: RE: Python Developers

2011-03-25 Thread skip
MAL> You're talking about these links: MAL> * Careerbuilder.com MAL> * ComputerJobs.com MAL> * DICE MAL> * Indeed (Aggregator) MAL> * Juju.com (Aggregator) MAL> * Monster.com MAL> * SimplyHired

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: Accepted: RE: Python Developers

2011-03-25 Thread skip
ng. Chris, next time you're in there, please just rip them all out. Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

[pydotorg-www] is hg.python.org down?

2011-03-24 Thread skip
(194.109.5.9) 129.438 ms !N 0.so-2-0-0.xr3.3d12.xs4all.net (194.109.5.13) 132.098 ms !N 0.so-2-0-0.xr4.1d12.xs4all.net (194.109.5.9) 145.906 ms !N Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

[pydotorg-www] Tighten up Jython wiki settings a bit?

2011-03-24 Thread skip
e are dealing with a bot. Can we enable the TextCha capability for that wiki? Thx, Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Wiki theme enhancements (Re: Upgrades completed)

2011-03-14 Thread skip
Radomir> The new theme is now enabled as default. Please let me know if Radomir> there are any problems with it. What is the name of the new theme? I now have nine choices as my preferred theme. Is nine too many? Should we zap a few?

Re: [pydotorg-www] disoriented on first visit to site (fwd)

2011-03-14 Thread skip
>>>>> "skip" == skip writes: skip> I was a bit confused by this guy's note to webmaster. At first I skip> thought he was having PyPI problems, but now I think he's having skip> Mailman problems. skip> Is there a PyPI developer o

[pydotorg-www] disoriented on first visit to site (fwd)

2011-03-14 Thread skip
I was a bit confused by this guy's note to webmaster. At first I thought he was having PyPI problems, but now I think he's having Mailman problems. Is there a PyPI developer on the pydotorg(-www)? mailing list who can triage in case it is PyPI-related? Skip --- Begin Message --- -

[pydotorg-www] Subversion still the revision control for website?

2011-03-11 Thread skip
Is Subversion still the revision control system for the python.org website? I just checked in a change to the doc/content.ht then had this thought that maybe it had moved to Mercurial as well. Thx, Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www

[pydotorg-www] copyrights in the wiki?

2011-02-26 Thread skip
Do we care about people adding copyrights to wiki pages (or the code therein)? http://wiki.python.org/moin/State%20Machine%20via%20Decorators Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: python.org website change request

2011-02-21 Thread skip
studioeval > to > http://www.roguewave.com/products/imsl-numerical-libraries/pyimsl-studio.aspx Done. Should be up on the website in a few minutes. -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ ___ pydotorg-www ma

Re: [pydotorg-www] Asian Characters On Sidebar On Frontpage

2011-01-28 Thread skip
Carl> There are some Asian characters on the left sidebar on the Carl> frontpage of www.python.org. Was this by design? Yes, I believe Martin added the Chinese characters for "download". Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing l

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: A little mistake, Agustin

2010-12-18 Thread skip
Any idea who the original author of this page is or how recently it was last updated? I searched for it on the Wayback Machine but didn't find a copy there. Maybe it should be moved to the wiki and updates/rewrites solicited. Or just deleted.

Re: [pydotorg-www] bugs.python.org down

2010-11-10 Thread skip
.224.100) 131.697 ms hos-tr1.ex3k3.rz13.hetzner.de (213.239.224.4) 134.573 ms hos-tr3.ex3k3.rz13.hetzner.de (213.239.224.68) 134.547 ms 14 * * * 15 * * * ... Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org

Re: [pydotorg-www] bugs.python.org down

2010-11-10 Thread skip
d). Also failed using Lynx from www.smontanaro.net (that's at Tummy). Both around 05:30 Central Time. Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Did someone completely wipe out the WikiSandBox page?

2010-11-06 Thread skip
skip> The WikiSandBox page is complete and utter garbage and there is no skip> page history. Did someone delete it completely? I replaced it with the contents (but not the attachments) from the moinmo.in wiki. S ___ pydotorg-www mailin

[pydotorg-www] Did someone completely wipe out the WikiSandBox page?

2010-11-06 Thread skip
The WikiSandBox page is complete and utter garbage and there is no page history. Did someone delete it completely? Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Inquiry (fwd)

2010-10-24 Thread skip
skip> If it looks okay to other people I see no reason to add it. Make that "... no reason *not* to add it." Skip ___ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www

Re: [pydotorg-www] Inquiry (fwd)

2010-10-24 Thread skip
>> >> Forwarded from webmaster alias. I have no opinion one way or the other >> about providing a link. It would be nice if their Python listings >> emphasized Python as a primary skill, not just a secondary or "nice to have" >> skill

[pydotorg-www] Inquiry (fwd)

2010-10-24 Thread skip
Forwarded from webmaster alias. I have no opinion one way or the other about providing a link. It would be nice if their Python listings emphasized Python as a primary skill, not just a secondary or "nice to have" skill. Skip --- Begin Message --- Dear madam and sirs, we

Re: [pydotorg-www] The old intros page - missing but widely linked to

2010-10-07 Thread skip
>> http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html ... >> I can't see an obvious alternative page to redirect to, Stephan> What about redirecting to http://python.org/about/gettingstarted/ ? Works for me. Anything is better