Monday, July 23, 2007

Python documentation team is looking for members

Georg Brandl sent out a call for people who wish to help with the python documentation.

Dear fellow Pythonistas,

as you may have heard, Python is going to get a new documentation system
soon [1]. As part of that effort, and in order to maintain the excellent
quality of the docs, we are looking for members of the maintainers team.
This is your chance to get involved with Python development!

There will be two main objectives of the group, or maybe two subgroups can
be formed:

* Maintaining the documentation contents:
- processing user submitted comments, bugs and patches
- helping out developers with docs-related matters, keeping an eye
on commits to ensure quality
- keeping the docs up-to-date, e.g. write new sections for new
Python 3000 features

The docs source will be in reStructuredText, which is already known to a
relatively high percentage of Python developers.

The new online version of the docs will contain features to add comments
and suggest changes, so it is expected that there will be some amount
of user involvement.


* Development of the toolset:
- fixing bugs in the package
- adding new output formats, e.g. info or pdf
- adding new features to the web application
- adapting it to new docutils features

Read the rest here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-July/073960.html

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