[Python-Dev] Move selected documentation repos to PSF BitBucket account?

[R. David Murray]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:59:42 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, different question. Has anyone here actually even *read* the workflow
> PEPs I wrote? They were on the agenda for the language summit, but got
> bumped due to lack of time (which I'm still annoyed about, given the
> comparatively inconsequential things that chewed up a whole lot of the day).

I have (but I'm core).  It's been a while, though, I need to review it.

> I've only had a couple of folks from outside the core dev community express
> interest in them. Personally, the lack of online editing support annoys me
> immensely whenever I need to work on PEPs or the devguide. I also think

Eh, I hate online editing ;).  But I understand its utility.

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> My preferred answer remains setting up a srlf-hosted forge.python.org, but
> I've seen little evidence we have the capacity to deploy & maintain such a
> service effectively, given the relative lack of interest shown in the idea
> by almost everyone I've spoken to about it. Any progress has only come with
> a lot of pushing from me, and I just don't have the personal bandwidth to
> sustain that at this point. That's why the related PEPs were deferred, and
> the only responses I've received regarding potentially taking them over
> have come from folks outside the core development community, which really
> doesn't help very much in removing my availability as a bottleneck in the
> workflow improvement process.
> 
> If nobody wants to maintain a self-hosted forge, or even enable the folks
> that have expressed interest in setting it up & maintaining it, then the
> right answer is "don't do it" - we should use a commercial service instead.

I have an interest in this, but like you lack bandwidth.  I have no
employer that I could petition for 50% open source time, so any time I
spend on it is time I'm not billing...so my available time comes and
goes depending on my client situation, and I'm also one of the few
putting any time in on tracker maintenance (not that I have much lately,
Ezio has done most of it) and I've still got the email docs to finish up
as well as a list of bugs...yeah, bandwidth is a problem.

But maybe I can take over coordination of the volunteers that want to
work on the forge.  We've already got the mailing list set up.

--David