Python docs disappointing - group effort to hire writers?

[Mark Lawrence]

Bill Jones wrote:
> On Aug 8, 3:27 pm, Mark Lawrence <breamore... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Kee Nethery wrote:
>>> As someone trying to learn the language I want to say that the tone on
>>> this list towards people who are trying to learn Python  feels like it
>>> has become anti-newbies.
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Kee Nethery
>> My gut feeling (which could of course be wrong) is that many hard core
>> Pythonistas are cheesed off with newbies who refuse to help themselves.
> 
> The funny thing is that their response is to shutdown changes that are
> intended
> to *help* newbies help themselves. It seems self-defeating to me.
> 
And I still do not believe this to be true.  Documents are being changed 
all the time.  See the python-dev mailing list "Summary of python 
tracker issues" dated 17/24/31 July and 07/14 August 2009.  The only 
request I recall being rejected is someone objecting to the use of 
"weapons" in a piece of sample code.

Also see Issue6660 on the bug tracker, it is of particular interest to 
anyone who's interested in plans for python.org documentation links.

-- 
Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.