Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Re: Encouraging developers

2007-03-07 Thread Neal Norwitz
On 3/7/07, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We should try to keep the documentation buildable at all times so that it > will remain visible to everyone at http://docs.python.org/dev/ . Broken doc doesn't get pushed though. So the worst that will happen is that the dev doc will be

[Python-Dev] Fwd: Re: Encouraging developers

2007-03-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
[Facundo] >> Me, for example, has an actual question to this list: "How can I know, >> if I change something in the doc's .tex files, that I'm not broking >> the TeX document structure?". [MvL] >You don't have to know. As a general contributor, just submit your >patch, and perhaps the reviewer wil

[Python-Dev] Fwd: Re: Encouraging developers

2007-03-07 Thread Raymond Hettinger
[Scott Dial] >While I understand that this tit-for-tat mechanism is meant to ensure >participation, I believe in reality it doesn't, as the 400-some >outstanding patches you referenced elswhere indicate. . . . >If nothing else, as an outsider there is no way to know why your patch >gets ignored