[Python-Dev] Misc/maintainers.rst

[Nick Coghlan]

Fred Drake wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:38, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>> So the plan would be to consolidate these into another set of rst docs,
>> having them in the repo, editable by every committer, as well as
>> published
>> somewhere on python.org (devdocs.python.org or somesuch).
> 
> On Sep 17, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>> dev.python.org would be nice to have, from which we can simply
>> redirect www.python.org/dev/ to dev.python.org. www.python.org/dev/
>> can then get cleaned up be made simpler to navigate and more obvious
>> for how people can get started.
> 
> Many years ago, we decided to add docs.python.org with the "current"
> version of the documentation, so people would be able to find the docs
> more easily.  Since then, we've had problems with keeping
> docs.python.org and www.python.org/doc/ in sync, and with different
> styles being applied to the sites.

We can avoid that problem by having the URLs just be alternative names
for the same thing (as Brett suggested), rather than having them be
actually different sites (as is the case for docs.python.org and
www.python.org/doc).

Cheers,
Nick.

-- 
Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
---------------------------------------------------------------