Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-17 Thread Bob Ippolito

On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Benji York wrote:

 Alexander Schremmer wrote:
 In fact, PHP does it like php.net/functionname which is even  
 shorter, i.e.
 they fallback to the documentation if that path does not exist  
 otherwise.

 Like many things PHP, that seems a bit too magical for my tastes.

Not only does it fall back to documentation, it falls back to a  
search for documentation if there isn't a function of that name.

It's a convenient feature, I'm sure people would use it if it was  
there... even if it was something like http://python.org/doc/name

-bob

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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-17 Thread Georg Brandl
Bob Ippolito wrote:
 On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Benji York wrote:
 
 Alexander Schremmer wrote:
 In fact, PHP does it like php.net/functionname which is even  
 shorter, i.e.
 they fallback to the documentation if that path does not exist  
 otherwise.

 Like many things PHP, that seems a bit too magical for my tastes.
 
 Not only does it fall back to documentation, it falls back to a  
 search for documentation if there isn't a function of that name.
 
 It's a convenient feature, I'm sure people would use it if it was  
 there... even if it was something like http://python.org/doc/name

Yes. Either that or docs.python.org/... would be nice.

(alongside with the custom markers I proposed one time so that there
can be speaking URLs like

docs.python.org/mutable-default-arguments

)

Georg

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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:13:14 +0100, Georg Brandl wrote:

 If something like Fredrik's new doc system is adopted, it would be extremely
 convenient to refer someone to just
 
 docs.python.org/os.path.join

In fact, PHP does it like php.net/functionname which is even shorter, i.e.
they fallback to the documentation if that path does not exist otherwise.

Kind regards,
Alexander

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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-17 Thread Benji York
Alexander Schremmer wrote:
 In fact, PHP does it like php.net/functionname which is even shorter, i.e.
 they fallback to the documentation if that path does not exist otherwise.

Like many things PHP, that seems a bit too magical for my tastes.
--
Benji York

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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-16 Thread Gerhard Häring
Jeremy Hylton wrote:
 I don't think this message is on-topic for python-dev.  There are lots
 of great places to discuss the design of the python web site, but the
 list for developers doesn't seem like a good place for it.  Do we need
 a different list for people to gripe^H^H^H^H^H discuss the web site? [...]

Such as http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-redesign ?

-- Gerhard
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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-15 Thread Tim Parkin
Guido van Rossum wrote:

 (Now that I work for Google I realize more than ever before the
 importance of keeping URLs stable; PageRank(tm) numbers don't get
 transferred as quickly as contents. I have this worry too in the
 context of the python.org redesign; 301 permanent redirect is *not*
 going to help PageRank of the new page.)
Hi Guido,

Could you expand on why 301 redirects won't help with the transfer of
page rank (if you're allowed)? We've done exactly this on many sites and
the pagerank (or more relevantly the search rankings on specific terms)
has transferred almost overnight. The bigger pagerank updates (both
algorithm changes and overhauls in approach) seem to only happen every
few months and these also seem to take notice of 301 redirects (they
generally clear up any supplemental results).

The addition of the docs.python.org was also intended (I thought) to be
used in the google customised search (the google page you go to when you
search from python.org). I'm not sure if that go lost in implementation
but the idea was that the google box would have a radio button for
docs.python.org.

I agree that docs.python.org should only be the current documentation
however what about the large amount of people who use 2.3 as standard?
perhaps the docs23.python.org makes sense.

In terms of pagerank for the different versions of the docs, would it
make sense to 'hide' the older versions of the docs with a noindex so
that general google searches will only return the current docs.

aside Google seems to have a policy of ranking 'long standing' links
with a higher pagerank weighting, hence older versions of python docs
ranking higher). Hence keeping a single 'current' set of docs and having
all inbound links pointing to them (e.g. docs.python.org) will gradually
build up the search ranking./aside

+1 on docs.python.org only containing current (with the caveat that
there be an equivalent for users of specific versions, e.g. 2.3 users)

Tim Parkin

p.s. All my knowledge of how google work is gained through personal
research so the terminology, techniques and results may be completely
wrong (and also may vary from time to time) - however they do reflect
direct experience.

p.p.s regarding 'site:', 'allinurl:' and other google modifiers; It
would seem a good idea to create a single page that helped site users
make such searches without having to learn how the modifiers work.

It maybe should be noted that you can also add a 'temporary redirects'
(302's) which is taken by google to mean leave the original search
results in place. This has also worked for us (old urls remain the same
as far as google is concerned).
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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-15 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 2/15/06, Tim Parkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Guido van Rossum wrote:

  (Now that I work for Google I realize more than ever before the
  importance of keeping URLs stable; PageRank(tm) numbers don't get
  transferred as quickly as contents. I have this worry too in the
  context of the python.org redesign; 301 permanent redirect is *not*
  going to help PageRank of the new page.)

 Could you expand on why 301 redirects won't help with the transfer of
 page rank (if you're allowed)? We've done exactly this on many sites and
 the pagerank (or more relevantly the search rankings on specific terms)
 has transferred almost overnight. The bigger pagerank updates (both
 algorithm changes and overhauls in approach) seem to only happen every
 few months and these also seem to take notice of 301 redirects (they
 generally clear up any supplemental results).

OK, perhaps I stand corrected. I don't actually know that much about PageRank!

I still don't like docs.python.org, and adding more like it seems a
mistake; but it's possible that this is because of a poor execution of
the idea (there's no search docs button near the search button on
the old python.org).

--
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-15 Thread Tim Parkin
Guido van Rossum wrote:
 On 2/15/06, Tim Parkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
Guido van Rossum wrote:

I have this worry too in the
context of the python.org redesign; 301 permanent redirect is *not*
going to help PageRank of the new page.)
Could you expand on why 301 redirects won't help with the transfer of
page rank (if you're allowed)? We've done exactly this on many sites and
the pagerank (or more relevantly the search rankings on specific terms)
has transferred almost overnight. The bigger pagerank updates (both
algorithm changes and overhauls in approach) seem to only happen every
few months and these also seem to take notice of 301 redirects (they
generally clear up any supplemental results).
 
 OK, perhaps I stand corrected. I don't actually know that much about PageRank!
 
No problem, I don't think that many people do and the general consensus
seems to be that, although the calculations behind pagerank may be one
of the core parts of the google algorithm, there are so many additional
algorithms* that affect searches on a case by case and day by day basis
that the value from is almost meaningless (apart from possibly 0-2 may
be a problem 3-5 is normal, 6-9 is generally good and 10 I've not seen)

* (for instance, patents on working out the value of inbound links based
on there age, how many other inbound links appeared around the same
time, the status of the originating site as an 'authority' site, the
text contained in the inbound link and title attributes, etc and the
general relation between the inbound links and the 'theme' of the target
site ['theme' == the distribution of important keywords across the site])

 I still don't like docs.python.org, and adding more like it seems a
 mistake; but it's possible that this is because of a poor execution of
 the idea (there's no search docs button near the search button on
 the old python.org).
I'll try and make a more functional/usable google search page on the new
site.

Tim Parkin

p.s. I hope you didn't think I was digging for 'insider info'..
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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-15 Thread Jeremy Hylton
As I said in an earlier message, there's no need to have a separate
domain to restrict queries to just the doc/current part of python.org.
 Just type
site:python.org/doc/current your query here

If there isn't any other rationale, maybe we can redirects
docs.python.org back to www.python.org?

Jeremy

On 2/15/06, Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 2/15/06, Tim Parkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Guido van Rossum wrote:
 
   (Now that I work for Google I realize more than ever before the
   importance of keeping URLs stable; PageRank(tm) numbers don't get
   transferred as quickly as contents. I have this worry too in the
   context of the python.org redesign; 301 permanent redirect is *not*
   going to help PageRank of the new page.)

  Could you expand on why 301 redirects won't help with the transfer of
  page rank (if you're allowed)? We've done exactly this on many sites and
  the pagerank (or more relevantly the search rankings on specific terms)
  has transferred almost overnight. The bigger pagerank updates (both
  algorithm changes and overhauls in approach) seem to only happen every
  few months and these also seem to take notice of 301 redirects (they
  generally clear up any supplemental results).

 OK, perhaps I stand corrected. I don't actually know that much about PageRank!

 I still don't like docs.python.org, and adding more like it seems a
 mistake; but it's possible that this is because of a poor execution of
 the idea (there's no search docs button near the search button on
 the old python.org).

 --
 --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-15 Thread Georg Brandl
Jeremy Hylton wrote:
 As I said in an earlier message, there's no need to have a separate
 domain to restrict queries to just the doc/current part of python.org.
  Just type
 site:python.org/doc/current your query here
 
 If there isn't any other rationale, maybe we can redirects
 docs.python.org back to www.python.org?

If something like Fredrik's new doc system is adopted, it would be extremely
convenient to refer someone to just

docs.python.org/os.path.join

without looking up how the page is actually named.

Georg

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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-15 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Georg Brandl wrote:

 If something like Fredrik's new doc system is adopted, it would be extremely
 convenient to refer someone to just

 docs.python.org/os.path.join

 without looking up how the page is actually named.

you could of course reserve a toplevel directory for that purpose; e.g.

http://python.org/lib/os.path.join

or perhaps

http://python.org/tag/os.path.join
http://python.org/tag/print

etc.

/F



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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-15 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Georg Brandl wrote:

 If something like Fredrik's new doc system is adopted

don't hold your breath, by the way.  it's clear that the current PSF-sponsored
site overhaul won't lead to anything remotely close to a best-of-breed python-
powered site, and I'm beginning to think that I should spend my time on other
stuff.

I find it a bit sad that we'll end up with a butt-ugly static and boring 
python.org
site when we have so much talent in the python universe, but I guess that's in-
evitable at this stage in Python's evolution.

/F



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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-15 Thread Tim Parkin
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
 Georg Brandl wrote:
If something like Fredrik's new doc system is adopted
 
 don't hold your breath, by the way.  it's clear that the current PSF-sponsored
 site overhaul won't lead to anything remotely close to a best-of-breed python-
 powered site, and I'm beginning to think that I should spend my time on other
 stuff.
 
 I find it a bit sad that we'll end up with a butt-ugly static and boring 
 python.org
 site when we have so much talent in the python universe, but I guess that's 
 in-
 evitable at this stage in Python's evolution.
 
 /F
Some very large sites - and some may say some very interesting, very
large sites - are delivered as static html (for some time the two
biggest sites in the uk were both delivered as static html, one of which
was bbc.co.uk and the other was sportinglife.com for which I used to be
the main web developer. As far as I know the bbc and sporting life still
both use static html for a large portion of their content).

Regarding the python site, it was a concious decision to deliver the
pages as static html. This was for many reasons, of which a prominent
one (but by no means the only major one) was mirroring.

One of the advantages of a semantically structured website that uses css
for layout and style is that, as far as design goes, you are welcome to
re-style the html using css; we can also offer it as an alternate
stylesheet (just as I've added a 'large font' style and a 'default font
settings' style). However, design is a subjective thing - I've spent
quite a bit of time reacting to the majority of constructive feedback
(probably far too much time when I should have been getting content
migrated) but obviously it won't please everyone :-)

As for cutting edge, it's using twisted, restructured text, nevow, clean
urls, xhtml, semantic markup, css2, interfaces, adaption, eggs, the path
module, moinmoin, yaml (to avoid xml), etc  - just because it's
generating all of the html up front rather than at runtime doesn't mean
that it's not best-of-breed (although I'm not sure what best-of-breed
is; I'm presuming it's some sort of accolade for excellence in python
programming; something I don't think I would be qualified to judge,
never mind receive).

However, back to the Goerg's comment, we could use mod_write to map:

/lib/sets

to:

/doc/lib/module-sets.html

with

rewriteRule ^/lib/(.*)$ /doc/lib/module-$1.html [L,R=301]

(not tested)

Whether that is a good idea or not is another matter.


Tim Parkin
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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-15 Thread Jeremy Hylton
I don't think this message is on-topic for python-dev.  There are lots
of great places to discuss the design of the python web site, but the
list for developers doesn't seem like a good place for it.  Do we need
a different list for people to gripe^H^H^H^H^H discuss the web site?

Jeremy

On 2/15/06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Tim Parkin wrote:

  As for cutting edge, it's using twisted, restructured text, nevow, clean
  urls, xhtml, semantic markup, css2, interfaces, adaption, eggs, the path
  module, moinmoin, yaml (to avoid xml),

 that's not cutting edge, that's buzzword bingo.

  something I don't think I would be qualified to judge,never mind receive).

 no, you're not qualified.  yet, someone gave you total control over the
 future of python.org, and there's no way to make you give it up, despite
 the fact that you're over a year late and the stuff you've delivered this
 far is massively underwhelming.  that's the problem.

 /F



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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-14 Thread Neal Norwitz
On 2/13/06, Fred L. Drake, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Monday 13 February 2006 10:03, Georg Brandl wrote:
   The above docs are from August 2005 while docs.python.org/dev is current.
   Shouldn't the old docs be removed?

 I'm afraid I've generally been too busy to chime in much on this topic, but
 I've spent a bit of time thinking about it, and would like to keep on top of
 the issue still.

Fred,

While you are here, are you planning to do the doc releases for 2.5? 
You are tentatively listed in PEP 356.  (Technically it says TBD with
a ? next to your name.)

 The automatically-maintained version of the development docs is certainly
 preferrable to the manually-maintained-by-me version, and I've updated the
 link from www.python.org/doc/ to refer to that version for now.  However, I
 do have some concerns about how this is all structured still.

I think this was the quick hack I did.  I hope there are many
concerns. :-)  For example, if the doc build fails, ...  Hmmm, this
probably isn't a problem.  The doc won't be updated, but will still be
the last good version.  So if I send mail when the doc doesn't build,
then it might not be so bad.  Will have to test this.  I still need to
switch over the failure mails to go to python-checkins.  There are too
many right now though.  Unless people don't mind getting several
messages about refleaks every day?  Anyone?

 What I would also like to see is to have an automatically-updated version for
 each of the maintainer versions of Python, as well as the development trunk.
 That would mean two versions at this point (2.4.x, 2.5.x); only one of those
 is currently handled automatically.

That shouldn't be a problem.  See http://docs.python.org/dev/2.4/

n
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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-13 Thread Guido van Rossum
Shouldn't docs.python.org be removed? It seems to add mroe confusion
than anything, especially since most links on python.org continue to
point to python.org/doc/.

On 2/13/06, Georg Brandl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The above docs are from August 2005 while docs.python.org/dev is current.
 Shouldn't the old docs be removed?

(Now that I work for Google I realize more than ever before the
importance of keeping URLs stable; PageRank(tm) numbers don't get
transferred as quickly as contents. I have this worry too in the
context of the python.org redesign; 301 permanent redirect is *not*
going to help PageRank of the new page.)

--
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Monday 13 February 2006 10:03, Georg Brandl wrote:
  The above docs are from August 2005 while docs.python.org/dev is current.
  Shouldn't the old docs be removed?

I'm afraid I've generally been too busy to chime in much on this topic, but 
I've spent a bit of time thinking about it, and would like to keep on top of 
the issue still.

The automatically-maintained version of the development docs is certainly 
preferrable to the manually-maintained-by-me version, and I've updated the 
link from www.python.org/doc/ to refer to that version for now.  However, I 
do have some concerns about how this is all structured still.

One of the goals of docs.python.org was to be able to do a Google site-search 
and only see the current version.  Having multiple versions on that site is 
contrary to that purpose.  I'd like to see the development version(s) move 
back to being in the www.python.org/dev/doc/ hierarchy.

What I would also like to see is to have an automatically-updated version for 
each of the maintainer versions of Python, as well as the development trunk.  
That would mean two versions at this point (2.4.x, 2.5.x); only one of those 
is currently handled automatically.


  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.   fdrake at acm.org
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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-13 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:52:44PM -0500, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
 What I would also like to see is to have an automatically-updated
 version for each of the maintainer versions of Python, as well as
 the development trunk.  That would mean two versions at this point
 (2.4.x, 2.5.x); only one of those is currently handled
 automatically.

If Thomas could set up a wildcard DNS of some sort, would it be a good
idea to have lots of hostnames, e.g. docs-24.python.org,
docs-25.python.org, etc.?  We could probably make it work in Apache
with mod_rewrite so that we aren't endlessly tweaking the config file
as new versions are released.

--amk

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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-13 Thread Michael Foord
Guido van Rossum wrote:
 Shouldn't docs.python.org be removed? It seems to add mroe confusion
 than anything, especially since most links on python.org continue to
 point to python.org/doc/.

   
All the web says about 1200 links into the docs.python.org subdomain. 
(Different to the google link feature, which only shows links to a 
specific URL I believe.)

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=webcs=utf8q=link%3Adocs.python.orgrys=0itag=crv_sb_lang=pref

It's where I link to as well. Be a shame to lose it. ;-)

Michael Foord

 On 2/13/06, Georg Brandl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   
 The above docs are from August 2005 while docs.python.org/dev is current.
 Shouldn't the old docs be removed?
 

 (Now that I work for Google I realize more than ever before the
 importance of keeping URLs stable; PageRank(tm) numbers don't get
 transferred as quickly as contents. I have this worry too in the
 context of the python.org redesign; 301 permanent redirect is *not*
 going to help PageRank of the new page.)

 --
 --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-13 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Monday 13 February 2006 15:40, Guido van Rossum wrote:
  Shouldn't docs.python.org be removed? It seems to add mroe confusion
  than anything, especially since most links on python.org continue to
  point to python.org/doc/.

docs.python.org was created specifically to make searching the most recent 
stable version of the docs easier (using Google's site: modifier, no less).  
I don't know what the link count statistics say (other than what you 
mention), and don't know which gets hit more often, but I still think it's a 
reasonable approach.

I've been switching links to point to docs.python.org whenever I find an older 
link that points to www.python.org/doc/current/; other parts of the doc/ area 
from the site didn't move, and perhaps that's a problem that should be 
addressed.

  (Now that I work for Google I realize more than ever before the
  importance of keeping URLs stable; PageRank(tm) numbers don't get
  transferred as quickly as contents. I have this worry too in the
  context of the python.org redesign; 301 permanent redirect is *not*
  going to help PageRank of the new page.)

Maybe I'm just not getting why that's relevant.


  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.   fdrake at acm.org
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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

 docs.python.org was created specifically to make searching the most recent
 stable version of the docs easier (using Google's site: modifier, no less).
 I don't know what the link count statistics say (other than what you
 mention), and don't know which gets hit more often

I've been looking into page stats for the AltPyDotOrgCms activity; from
what I can tell, it's evenly distributed (~55% on www.python.org/doc,
45% on docs.python.org)

/F



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Re: [Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available

2006-02-13 Thread Jeremy Hylton
On 2/13/06, Fred L. Drake, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Monday 13 February 2006 15:40, Guido van Rossum wrote:
   Shouldn't docs.python.org be removed? It seems to add mroe confusion
   than anything, especially since most links on python.org continue to
   point to python.org/doc/.

 docs.python.org was created specifically to make searching the most recent
 stable version of the docs easier (using Google's site: modifier, no less).
 I don't know what the link count statistics say (other than what you
 mention), and don't know which gets hit more often, but I still think it's a
 reasonable approach.

Why not do a query like this?
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apython.org/doc/current%20urllibhl=en

Jeremy
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