[Doc-SIG] epydoc reST markup for stdlib docstrings

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> > That was a more interesting task :)  However, I'm not opposed to doing
> > stupid, repetitive things every now and then, and I hope I can find a
> > few others to share the task.
>
> Agreed the task was more interesting.
>
> Also, I wasn't suggesting that we should sucker you into another such
> task, but just noting that someone's likely to find the outcome
> sufficiently valuable.  And yes, multiple hands would be better.
>
>
> Pydocweb (http://code.google.com/p/pydocweb/) is very good for this. It's
an svn-aware wiki docstring editor. For numpy/scipy about 100 people are
registered, most of whom have contributed, from a few bug fixes to thousands
of words.

A python committer would only need to review changes and apply patches. It's
a great way to get contributions from new people.

Cheers,
Ralf
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