[Python-Dev] Moving the developer docs?

[Benjamin Peterson]

2010/9/23 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>:
> On Sep 23, 2010, at 08:40 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:
>
>>That's right.  It is true that it isn't branch-specific information,
>>and that does cause a little bit of irritation for me too, but neither
>>is Misc/developers.txt or Misc/maintainers.rst.
>>
>>Of course, we might consider a separate HG repository (I'm all in favor
>>of many small repos, instead of a gigantic sandbox one).  The downside
>>is that I really like the developer docs at docs.python.org, and it
>>would complicate the build process a bit.
>
> Ideally, I would really like to see the developer docs live outside the
> CPython source repository.  There's no reason to tie the dev docs to CPython's
> svn merge policies, write acls, or release schedules.  Given the way
> docs.python.org is stitched together, and the fact that we (still ;) haven't
> moved to a dvcs, this may not be feasible.

Are any of our docs subject to release schedules?

>
> These docs are better off in the wiki than in the source tree.




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Regards,
Benjamin