[Doc-SIG] "What's New" for all versions

[Georg Brandl]

Robert Kern schrieb:
> Georg Brandl wrote:
>> Martin Blais schrieb:
>>> On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:12:50 -0500, "Robert Kern"
>>> <robert.kern at gmail.com> said:
>>>> Whenever I have to look for when a feature was introduced, I go looking
>>>> at the 
>>>> "What's New in Python 2.x" pages. Since the documentation for Python 2.x
>>>> only 
>>>> contains the "What's New in Python 2.x" and none of the earlier parts,
>>>> this 
>>>> becomes fairly tedious if I guess the version wrong. I'd really like to
>>>> see all 
>>>> of the older "What's New" pages in the current Python version's
>>>> documentation. 
>>>> There should be a single ToC page collating the ToCs for all of the
>>>> "What's New" 
>>>> versions. I don't think it should replace the current ToC, but I think it
>>>> should 
>>>> exist.
>>>>
>>>> I don't have time to work on this immediately, so I thought I would throw
>>>> it out 
>>>> there to see if there's any interest.
>>> +1 on Robert's idea. 
>>> I always end up bricolating some summary of the new changes for myself.
>>> It would be nice if it were just there.
>> 
>> I've now changed the templates a bit to make all "What's new" documents
>> accessible. This should be live on docs.python.org soon.
> 
> That's better, thank you! Can you easily put the ToCs for all of the What's New 
> pages onto that page? It would make skimming and searching even easier.

Done! Let me know if it works for you.

Georg

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