Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-26 Thread Aahz
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: > > Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a > different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to > be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case. For me, the big ba

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-26 Thread Leif Walsh
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Overall, I recommend use of Google Docs for "Python-Ideas" level of > PEP drafts. +1! I also like Google Sites for collaborative editing. -- Cheers, Leif ___ Python-Dev mailing list Pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 20, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: (1) and (2) are obvious, I think, and I don't know how much (3) really matters when the editors are a small group. But I was surprised by how much (4), and (5) contributed to my experience wo

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread William Dode
On 21-02-2009, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM, wrote: >> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 01:12, Jeff Hall wrote: Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM, wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 01:12, Jeff Hall wrote: >>> >>> Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a >>> different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to >>> be a much higher barrier to doing some editin

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread rdmurray
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 01:12, Jeff Hall wrote: Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case. For the DVCS, I'd just write

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20090220 18:51], Guido van Rossum (gu...@python.org) wrote: >I still don't like wikis for this purpose very much -- a person >editing effectively grabs a lock on the whole file. Imagine a Wiki with a cross-polination of Etherpad [1], that would resolve that complaint. [1] http://etherpad.com

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread William Dode
On 21-02-2009, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Summary: > > Google Docs is easy to use, featureful, and here now. Since AIUI the > PEPs eventually need to be hosted at python.org, I see Google Docs as > an immediate replacement for email transmission of early drafts of > PEPs, not as a permanent solu

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Jeff Hall
> Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a > different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to > be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case. > For the DVCS, I'd just write a little script that would (1) update (2)

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread rdmurray
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 12:56, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: (4) automatic saves of intermediate work -- at the tweak stage, the effort to save, commit, and push to a DVCS outweighs the effort to tweak, costing a lot of polish IME -- wikis don't do this, and I wonder whether people would

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Summary: Google Docs is easy to use, featureful, and here now. Since AIUI the PEPs eventually need to be hosted at python.org, I see Google Docs as an immediate replacement for email transmission of early drafts of PEPs, not as a permanent solution to PEP storage. William Dode writes: > Isn't

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 20, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Isn't it the good oportunity to try a DVCS ? That was my original suggestion, yes, but Stephen Turnbull suggested Google Docs instead. I found Google docs to be both very helpful and very pain

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM, William Dode wrote: > On 20-02-2009, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >>> Georg Brandl gmx.net> writes: The Python Wiki should also be considered: * Comparing versions is easy, and versions are

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread William Dode
On 20-02-2009, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> Georg Brandl gmx.net> writes: >>> >>> The Python Wiki should also be considered: >>> >>> * Comparing versions is easy, and versions are only saved on "Save" >>> >>> * It supports reStructuredText, s

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Georg Brandl gmx.net> writes: >> >> The Python Wiki should also be considered: >> >> * Comparing versions is easy, and versions are only saved on "Save" >> >> * It supports reStructuredText, so there is no need for conversion >> afterward

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Georg Brandl gmx.net> writes: > > The Python Wiki should also be considered: > > * Comparing versions is easy, and versions are only saved on "Save" > > * It supports reStructuredText, so there is no need for conversion > afterwards. And it's vendor-neutral :-)

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Georg Brandl
Stephen J. Turnbull schrieb: > FWIW, Google Docs is almost there. Working with Brett et al on early > drafts of PEP 0374 was easy and pleasant, and Google Docs gives > control of access to the document to the editor, not the Subversion > admin. The ability to make comments that are not visible t

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-19 Thread Collin Winter
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > On Python-Ideas, Guido van Rossum writes: > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Greg Ewing wrote: > > > > Fifth draft of the PEP. Re-worded a few things slightly > > > to hopefully make the proposal a bit clearer up front. > > > >