The Mailing List Digest Project
As proposed on python-ideas, i setup a repo to turn mail threads into articles. here is the repo https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ/py-mailing-list-summary i included a script to build .md to .html (with syntax highlighting) here is the index https://abdur-rahmaanj.github.io/py-mailing-list-summary/ included 3 articles as a start if you want to contribute an article, just follow existing .md format and put it in the .md folder planning to go across ideas, list and dev i can tell you, it's a really enjoyable experience. psst. we can enhance some html later -- Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer Mauritius
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:01 PM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer < arj.python@gmail.com> wrote:
As proposed on python-ideas, i setup a repo to turn mail threads into articles.
Thanks for doing this — I find myself frequently telling people about past relevant threads on this list - it will be great to have a single place to point people. It can be hard to find stuff in the archives if you’re not sure what to search for. here is the repo
https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ/py-mailing-list-summary
i included a script to build .md to .html
Maybe Sphinx and RST instead? For consistency with other Python docs? But markup is far less important than content. -CHB (with syntax highlighting) here is the index
-- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
Great! will see sphinx but if i find the html hard to customise, i'll drop it. Search feature and tags coming. also, currently i'm formatting the mails rather than an article, i don't know if a real summary of the topic preferable ... Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer Mauritius
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 8:32 AM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer < arj.python@gmail.com> wrote:
Great! will see sphinx but if i find the html hard to customise, i'll drop it.
Sphinx has theming support, plus you can do custom CSS if you want. But Highly discourage you from worrying about formatting — decent structure is good enough, and content is what matters. Search feature and tags coming.
Sphinx has search built in. also, currently i'm formatting the mails rather than an article, i don't
know if a real summary of the topic preferable ...
These mailing lists are really big, and the threads are long and scattered, and they are archived and searchable already. So I think the real value would be article-style summaries (with links to the threads). For Python-Ideas, I’m thinking kind of a mini rejected PEP ... -CHB
Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer Mauritius
-- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:01 PM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer < arj.python@gmail.com> wrote:
As proposed on python-ideas, i setup a repo to turn mail threads into articles.
Thanks for doing this — I find myself frequently telling people about past relevant threads on this list - it will be great to have a single place to point people. It can be hard to find stuff in the archives if you’re not sure what to search for. here is the repo
https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ/py-mailing-list-summary
i included a script to build .md to .html
Maybe Sphinx and RST instead? For consistency with other Python docs? But markup is far less important than content. -CHB (with syntax highlighting) here is the index
-- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
Great! will see sphinx but if i find the html hard to customise, i'll drop it. Search feature and tags coming. also, currently i'm formatting the mails rather than an article, i don't know if a real summary of the topic preferable ... Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer Mauritius
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 8:32 AM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer < arj.python@gmail.com> wrote:
Great! will see sphinx but if i find the html hard to customise, i'll drop it.
Sphinx has theming support, plus you can do custom CSS if you want. But Highly discourage you from worrying about formatting — decent structure is good enough, and content is what matters. Search feature and tags coming.
Sphinx has search built in. also, currently i'm formatting the mails rather than an article, i don't
know if a real summary of the topic preferable ...
These mailing lists are really big, and the threads are long and scattered, and they are archived and searchable already. So I think the real value would be article-style summaries (with links to the threads). For Python-Ideas, I’m thinking kind of a mini rejected PEP ... -CHB
Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer Mauritius
-- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
continuing a better effort here: https://github.com/PythonCHB/PythonListsSummaries moving to an impersonal repo later! <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Garanti sans virus. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
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