<div><span style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168); ">On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Richard Jones wrote:</span></div>
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<span><div><div><div>On 7 February 2013 08:00, Jesse Noller <<a href="mailto:jnoller@gmail.com">jnoller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>So all-in-all, if we marget packages.p.o. and RTD somehow, then the</div><div>functionality of RTD must be enhanced, which may not be what the RTD</div><div>people want?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am sure I can talk to the maintainers (we're friends) and if anything, happily pay them for the support we need.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>While expanding the scope of RTD seems like a good idea (pending</div><div>agreement by the maintainers) I wonder what it is that we're actually</div><div>achieving?</div><div><br></div><div>Currently with RTD and <a href="http://packages.python.org">packages.python.org</a> we've got two free,</div><div>easy-to-use services for hosting documentation.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe our goal should be to make it easier for projects to provide</div><div>documentation.</div><div><br></div><div>If RTD was made to accept setuptools* upload_docs pushes (implying</div><div>also that they host arbitrary content) then it could be a replacement</div><div>for <a href="http://packages.python.org">packages.python.org</a> eventually. There'd be some transition pain</div><div>though (especially if users of upload_docs didn't notice.)</div><div><br></div><div>Either way both are linked from PyPI, both are good Google juice, ...</div><div><br></div><div>I guess one of the benefits of merging is that the PSF only has one</div><div>such service to maintain - although to be honest the burden of</div><div>maintaining <a href="http://packages.python.org">packages.python.org</a> runs to about one support issue a year</div><div>- a pittance compared to PyPI :-)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> Richard</div><div><br></div><div>* yes, I keep forgetting to look into getting that into distutils core</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Catalog-SIG mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Catalog-SIG@python.org">Catalog-SIG@python.org</a></div><div><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig</a></div></div></div></span>
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