Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] devguide: Strip out all generic svn instructions from the FAQ. It's not only

2011-01-06 Thread Michael Foord
On 05/01/2011 18:37, Brett Cannon wrote: To those that want to keep those steps in the dev FAQ, go ahead but I recuse myself from maintaining it. Having had so many instances of people asking how do I do this? and me almost always able to go read the dev FAQ has basically made me feel like it is

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] devguide: Strip out all generic svn instructions from the FAQ. It's not only

2011-01-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Michael Foord fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk wrote: I think you have it backwards. The benefit of having a FAQ is not that people read it first (they will almost never do that) but that you have a single place to send them when they ask the questions. It sounds like

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] devguide: Strip out all generic svn instructions from the FAQ. It's not only

2011-01-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/5/2011 1:18 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 04:13, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com Your call as the author, but please reconsider this one. I've found it *hugely* convenient over the years to have these task oriented answers in the FAQ. The problem with the

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] devguide: Strip out all generic svn instructions from the FAQ. It's not only

2011-01-05 Thread Brett Cannon
To those that want to keep those steps in the dev FAQ, go ahead but I recuse myself from maintaining it. Having had so many instances of people asking how do I do this? and me almost always able to go read the dev FAQ has basically made me feel like it is not worth the effort if people are not

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] devguide: Strip out all generic svn instructions from the FAQ. It's not only

2011-01-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:55 AM, brett.cannon python-check...@python.org wrote: brett.cannon pushed 72a286c3452d to devguide: http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/72a286c3452d changeset:   13:72a286c3452d user:        Brett Cannon br...@python.org date:        Tue Jan 04 11:48:38 2011 -0800

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] devguide: Strip out all generic svn instructions from the FAQ. It's not only

2011-01-04 Thread Eli Bendersky
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 04:13, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:55 AM, brett.cannon python-check...@python.org wrote: brett.cannon pushed 72a286c3452d to devguide: http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/72a286c3452d changeset: 13:72a286c3452d user: