[Python-Dev] experimental: Misc/NEWS included in docs

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue Oct 2 17:16:15 CEST 2012


On 09/30/2012 10:31 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:14:37 -0700
> Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>> > at http://docs.python.org/3.3/whatsnew/news.html, there is now
>> > a rendering of Misc/NEWS with tracker links and a crude filtering
>> > capability.  I thought that this will complement the "whatsnew"
>> > documents nicely for people looking for more detail.
>> >
>> > Please let me know if it's useful, or what could be done to make
>> > it *more* useful.
>>
>> Good idea.  Some suggestions:
>>
>> * A note at the top explaining what this page is and how it differs
>> from the other What's New page (including perhaps a link to the other
>> What's New page).  It might also be good if the two had more
>> distinctive titles.  They are currently "What’s New in Python" and
>> "Python News."
>
> Agreed. I think the titles are currently very confusing. The page
> you've just added should be called something like "Changelog", to
> stress its more bare'n'technical natural compared to our official
> "What's New" pages.
>
> Also it would be extra nice if the "What's new in Python X.Y" section
> headers could be renamed to "Python X.Y changelog", or similar.

Please have a look again (it's renamed to .../changelog.html); Ezio and I
tried to incorporate all the suggestions.

Georg



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