On 25 May 2014 19:15, Toby St Clere Smithe <m...@tsmithe.net> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> writes: >> Could you let us know what your path was in looking? I thought the trail >> from docs.python.org -> packaging.python.org -> the Projects page -> the >> respective GitHub/BitBucket pages was reasonably clear now (with the length >> being inherent in the complexity of the problem), but the current >> arrangements are all still relatively new, so it also doesn't surprise me >> there are still discoverability problems. > > Well, I was unable to get from the first to the second step, but I > suspect I was searching for a bug tracker related to distutils (because > this group is named for distutils). When I found a setuptools tracker, I > found [1], which didn't seem quite right -- and now I've found the > setuptools documentation (which seems to be on pythonhosted.org, not > docs.python.org, the latter of which only seems to have distutils, and > does not link as far as I can see to the setuptools tracker), I wonder > why the bug tracker (or this list) is only linked from [2] and not from > the higher-level [3]; [2] isn't a particularly discoverable place.
Ah, the, distutils tracker is actually bugs.python.org, but that's not generally what people want - as you did, they want the setuptools issue tracker on BitBucket, since distutils in the standard library isn't really getting major updates any more. > Also, the link from [2] to the tracker only takes you to [4], not to > [5], which I would expect. That I was sent to [4] made me think that I > had been sent to the wrong place, until I found the small paragraph at > the bottom of the page. Note that [1] is top of a Google search (for > me) for "setuptools bug". I filed a couple of proposed changes: Getting a suitable banner added to bugs.python.org/setuptools: http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue546 Changing the setuptools metadata to link back to BitBucket from PyPI: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/pull-request/54/ The docs daisy chain I was talking about was the one starting from https://docs.python.org/3/installing/ and https://docs.python.org/3/distributing/index.html, which eventually gets you to https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/projects.html However, that's not going to be relevant when someone already knows generally how everything works and is specifically hunting for a bug tracker link for distutils/setuptools. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
