[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-574241 ] Automated daily documentation builds

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Bugs item #574241, was opened at 2002-06-26 15:58
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Category: Documentation
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: Automated daily documentation builds

Initial Comment:
Set-up a cron job or python script to make daily 
rebuilds of the Python documentation at:  
www.python.org/dev/doc/devel

Developers using Windows and not using Cygwin do 
not have a method for doing their own builds.  

I think daily updates would be helpful for all 
developers and would increase the likelihood that 
people check their patches versus current 
documentation.

Also, it increases the chance that someone will notice 
and report a documentation error earlier in the 
release cycle.

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>Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2002-07-02 15:03

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I don't think failing frequently is a problem if the failure
shows up in someone's email.  It should probably go to
python-docs@python.org, and I can turn that into a fix. 
Perhaps it should go to the Doc-SIG instead, to allow more
people to help.

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-06-30 14:46

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I don't think this is possible. Automatic rebuilding of the
documentation will likely fail frequently, because of errors
in the tex input.

OTOH, if somebody volunteers to produce the documentation
automatically somewhere in the world (and fixes errors found
during the rebuild), then it would be easy to mirror those
on python.org.

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