Tim Parkin wrote: > >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. > > If you want to contribute, then do so...
so make it easy to contribute. I'm sure the project sponsors (PSF?) would be willing to wait a little longer if the site had good support for distributed maintenance from the start. > >>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... > > > Good and congratulations, it shows that the source code is well > formatted/consistent - I wish the rest of the website html/data were so. > If you are suggesting that your skills can do this with the rest of the > site content then please, please help!! > > In fact I will ask you now, publicly, if you are willing to offer your > services to help convert the documentation and exsiting content over to > the new website? to what target environment? a wiki? sure. the current homebrewn solution? probably not; way too much new technology to learn, and absolutely nothing that I'm likely to end up using in any other context. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
