[Python-Dev] Doc nits question

[Georg Brandl]

Fred Drake schrieb:
> On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:
>> I intend to set things up so that the docs at docs.python.org are  
>> continually
>> rebuilt, just like the /dev docs were until now.
> 
> Wonderful!  This should help avoid repeat reports of simple typos.
> 
> At one point, we started to separate the documentation releases so  
> that update releases could be easily pushed at times when there wasn't  
> a corresponding Python release.  There are a couple of examples of  
> these in the specific-versions list, IIRC.  These have version numbers  
> ending with "p1" (for patch 1; no more than one patched version was  
> ever released for any particular Python version).
> 
> It may be worth trying this or something like it again as well, if  
> there's enough volunteer time available.  Such versions would need to  
> be clearly marked on every page as to when they were updated, so that  
> readers can tell if they have the latest update.

All Sphinx-generated pages currently have a "last update on:" in the footer.
Do you think that suffices for this purpose?

Georg

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