--- On Wed, 6/10/09, Scott Sinclair <[email protected]> wrote:
> The front page of the Doc-Wiki says: > > "You do not need to be a SciPy developer to contribute, as > any > documentation changes committed directly to the Subversion > repository > by developers are automatically propogated here on a daily > basis. This > means that you can be sure the documentation reflected here > is in sync > with the most recent Scipy development efforts." Which is why I though the sync was one way. Unfortunately, I didn't now read on (but, as is often the case, what follows makes much more sense now that I know what it means ;-) ). DG > All of the documentation in the Wiki is actually stored as > plain text > in rst format (this is what you see when you click on the > edit link). > The files are stored in a separate subversion repository to > the > official NumPy and SciPy repositories. The Doc-Wiki simply > renders the > rst formatted text and provides nice functionality for > editing and > navigating the documentation. > > For documentation to get from the Wiki's repo to the main > NumPy and > SciPy repo's someone (with commit privileges) must make a > patch and > apply it. Visit http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/patch/ and generate a > patch to see what I mean. > > Any changes a developer checks into the main repo's will > automatically > be propogated to the Doc-Wiki repo once a day, to avoid > things getting > to confused. > > The upshot is, if you're a developer you can commit doc > changes > directly to the main repos. If you are not you can edit the > rst docs > in the Doc-Wiki and this will be committed to the main > repos at some > convenient time (usually just before a release). > > Cheers, > Scott > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
