[Python-Dev] Moving the developer docs?

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu Sep 23 18:21:51 CEST 2010


Am 23.09.2010 16:47, schrieb Guido van Rossum:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Jesse Noller wrote:
>>
>>>-1 on wiki; wikis are where good information goes off to die.
>>
>> Well, *all* documentation requires vigilance to remain relevant and current.
>> I'm sure you don't think the Python wiki is useless, right? ;)
> 
> I have to agree with Jesse. We have too many wiki pages that are so
> out of date they're dangerous. They serve a purpose, and I think we
> should have a wiki in addition to the "official" documentation. This
> could be aggressively linked from it so people can comment on that
> documentation -- a commenting system like the PHP docs have would be
> even better, but that's been an unimplemented idea for so long that
> I'm not holding my hopes up.

You should read my tweets more often :)

Yes, I know I promised this for last year, but this time the code is already
merged, and I "just" need to polish and set it up on docs.python.org.

cheers,
Georg

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