Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Steve Holden wrote > > >>As you indicated, there are other priorities just at the moment. > > > you're complaining about the lack of manpower, and still think that lowering > the threshold for contributions is not a priority ? at this point, this > should > be your *only* priority. > > I mean, getting this from a long-time python contributor that decided to > help out > > My first attempt ended almost immediately. Too much software > to download and install for anything like casual use. > > should be a rather strong indicator that the project isn't on the right track. > Or that the instructions being followed were those for producing a local copy of the website rather than editing the beta site content (mea culpa, since I believe 'twas I who gave the instructions).
> (and it sure isn't the only indicator; I still claim that the analysis is > flawed, > and that the www.python.org front-page asset shouldn't be reserved for a > target audience that doesn't exist. but that's a separate problem; if you > solve the threshold problem, we can deal with that later. if you don't, we > might get stuck with the new design for as long as we've had the old one). > I don't think it's *reserved* for anyone. The idea is to try and offer a system that allows easy changes to the content while maintaining a relatively clean design. > >>Once the new documentation site is up and running, that is :-) > > > that's an interesting comparision: it took me about 30 minutes to convert > 10+ megabytes of reference material into a usable (X)HTML infoset (that > is, with isolated content and structural information derived from the source > material), and a few hours to get old source->new source->render tool- > chain to a state where most conversion bugs turns out to be typos in the > original documents (aka "the 80% of the remaining 20%" level). > > if converting the old content is and has been the biggest problem in the > beta.python.org project, it seems to me as if you might not be doing things > in the easiest possible way... Well I can't disagree with that. Want to help? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
