Hey Team,

Has this workgroup started yet? If not, can I help get it going, or if so,
is there a mailing list or place where things are happening?

Brian Curtin

On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 12:58 Carol Willing <willi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Thanks for the interest. I apologize for the delay in getting this
> workgroup started. I'm happy that there is strong interest in working on
> documentation and improving it for all users.
>
> I will do my best to get the workgroup charter drafted this week and then
> open an interest list for initial workgroup members.
>
> Luciano, I agree that rewriting asyncio docs and typing are helpful
> improvements and welcome your contributions to accessible and high quality
> docs.
>
> Warmly,
>
> Carol
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 9:21 AM Luciano Ramalho <luci...@ramalho.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I am also interested in helping with making Python's documentation
>> more user friendly.
>>
>> Yuri Selivanov's rewrite of the asyncio documentation was brilliant.
>> We need more of that.
>>
>> My recent contribution to Python's doc doesn't compare with
>> Selivanov's awesome rewrite, but it involved reorganizing existing
>> documentation.
>>
>> The typing module chapter in the library reference is comprehensive,
>> and the top 1/3 of it has good narrative explanations to the core
>> concepts. But the remaining 2/3 of the content is in a single section
>> titled "Classes, functions, and decorators" that covers more than 70
>> objects, and there's no apparent ordering.
>>
>> With the help of Guido, I split that section in subsections, and
>> arranged the entries within the subsections by relevance to most
>> users—subjective, yes, but not too harmful if we made bad calls,
>> because now there are fewer entries per subsection.
>>
>> Before:
>> https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/typing.html
>>
>> After:
>> https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/typing.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Luciano
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 12:43 PM Mats Wichmann <m...@python.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 8/5/20 10:43 AM, Dominic Davis-Foster wrote:
>> > > Hi Carol,
>> > >
>> > > I was wondering if you've been able to set up the workgroup yet? I'd
>> certainly be interested in participating the there's an opportunity.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Stay safe
>> > >
>> > > Dom
>> >
>> > Indeed, I was wondering if there were any updates - I'm also interested
>> > in participating.
>> >
>> > -- mats
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>>
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>> Luciano Ramalho
>> |  Author of Fluent Python (O'Reilly, 2015)
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