On 21.03.2012 20:39, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> Guido, you encouraged us to use science, but only after describing my >> science-based maximum line-length suggestion as "coddling," then said we >> should let Georg get on with it, but only after reiterating your personal >> favorite tweak (which I happen to agree with). > > I have a fair number of strong usability gripes about current (and > past :-) design trends, but I know I can't design a decent looking > website myself if my life depended on it. > >> There's no way a committee (which this thread effectively is) will come up >> with a good design. Everyone will dislike something about it. I think it >> would be interesting to use the power of the web to provide docs whose style >> could be adjusted a few ways to make people happy, but that is probably more >> than anyone is willing to volunteer for, I know I can't step up to do it. > > I think it's fine to have a bunch of folks submit their pet peeves > (and argue them to the death :-) to the design czar and then let the > czar (i.e. Georg) decide. > >> Personally, I think two Python projects that have focused on docs and done a >> good job of it are Django and readthedocs.org. Perhaps we could follow >> their lead? > > I think they are actually more trend-followers,and they seem to make a > bunch of the mistakes I've fulminated against here. But again, I'll > leave it to Georg.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I'll know what to consider for the next iteration thanks to the lively participation here :) Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
