[Python-Dev] The docs, reloaded

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue May 22 17:22:31 CEST 2007


skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Fred> The biggest potential wins I see for a new system are:
> 
>     Fred> - more contributions
> 
>     Fred> - platform-independent processing
> 
>     Fred> I remain sceptical on being able to achieve the first, but there
>     Fred> some hope for it.
> 
> You at least take away a common excuse for lack of contributions.  True
> whiners will just come up with new ones (e.g., "the documentation isn't
> available in Sanskrit yet" or "the dog ate my changes before I could type
> them into the computer"). ;-)
> 
But doesn't *everyone* now know that documentation contributions don't 
have to be marked up? It's certainly been said enough. Maybe that fact 
should be more prominent in the documentation? Then we'll just have to 
worry about getting people to read it ...

regards
  Steve
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