[Python-Dev] Moving the developer docs?

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Sep 23 06:45:32 CEST 2010


A discussion occurred (w/o me) on #python-dev where moving it to Doc/
would allow it to show up at docs.python.org to perhaps get more
people involved. It also allows developers to contribute to the docs
w/o having to get pydotorg commit rights.

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 21:29, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> the first thing on the agenda is a complete rewrite of the developer
>> docs and moving them into the Doc/ directory
>
> I'd like to know why you think moving the developer docs into the
> CPython tree makes sense.
>
> My own thought here is that they're not specific to the version of
> Python, though some of the documentation deals with the group of
> specific branches being maintained.  For me, keeping them in a
> separate space (like www.python.org/dev/) makes sense.
>
>
>   -Fred
>
> --
> Fred L. Drake, Jr.    <fdrake at acm.org>
> "A storm broke loose in my mind."  --Albert Einstein
>


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