Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-26 Thread Leif Walsh
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull turnb...@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp wrote: Overall, I recommend use of Google Docs for Python-Ideas level of PEP drafts. +1! I also like Google Sites for collaborative editing. -- Cheers, Leif ___

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-26 Thread Aahz
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case. For me, the big

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread William Dode
On 21-02-2009, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Summary: Google Docs is easy to use, featureful, and here now. Since AIUI the PEPs eventually need to be hosted at python.org, I see Google Docs as an immediate replacement for email transmission of early drafts of PEPs, not as a permanent solution

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20090220 18:51], Guido van Rossum (gu...@python.org) wrote: I still don't like wikis for this purpose very much -- a person editing effectively grabs a lock on the whole file. Imagine a Wiki with a cross-polination of Etherpad [1], that would resolve that complaint. [1] http://etherpad.com/

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread rdmurray
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 01:12, Jeff Hall wrote: Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case. For the DVCS, I'd just write

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 01:12, Jeff Hall wrote: Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to be a much higher barrier to doing

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread William Dode
On 21-02-2009, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 01:12, Jeff Hall wrote: Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 20, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: (1) and (2) are obvious, I think, and I don't know how much (3) really matters when the editors are a small group. But I was surprised by how much (4), and (5) contributed to my experience

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Georg Brandl
Stephen J. Turnbull schrieb: FWIW, Google Docs is almost there. Working with Brett et al on early drafts of PEP 0374 was easy and pleasant, and Google Docs gives control of access to the document to the editor, not the Subversion admin. The ability to make comments that are not visible to

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net writes: The Python Wiki should also be considered: * Comparing versions is easy, and versions are only saved on Save * It supports reStructuredText, so there is no need for conversion afterwards. And it's vendor-neutral :-)

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net writes: The Python Wiki should also be considered: * Comparing versions is easy, and versions are only saved on Save * It supports reStructuredText, so there is no need for conversion

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread William Dode
On 20-02-2009, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net writes: The Python Wiki should also be considered: * Comparing versions is easy, and versions are only saved on Save * It supports

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM, William Dode w...@flibuste.net wrote: On 20-02-2009, Guido van Rossum wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net writes: The Python Wiki should also be considered: * Comparing versions

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 20, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Isn't it the good oportunity to try a DVCS ? That was my original suggestion, yes, but Stephen Turnbull suggested Google Docs instead. I found Google docs to be both very helpful and very

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Summary: Google Docs is easy to use, featureful, and here now. Since AIUI the PEPs eventually need to be hosted at python.org, I see Google Docs as an immediate replacement for email transmission of early drafts of PEPs, not as a permanent solution to PEP storage. William Dode writes: Isn't

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread rdmurray
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 at 12:56, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: (4) automatic saves of intermediate work -- at the tweak stage, the effort to save, commit, and push to a DVCS outweighs the effort to tweak, costing a lot of polish IME -- wikis don't do this, and I wonder whether people would

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-20 Thread Jeff Hall
Not that I'm expecting to be working on PEPs any time soon, but just as a different perspective, I would find the effort to open up Google docs to be a much higher barrier to doing some editing tweaks than the dvcs case. For the DVCS, I'd just write a little script that would (1) update (2)

[Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
[Aside to Guido: Oops, I think I accidentally sent you a contentless reply. Sorry!] As a suggestion, I think this is relevant to everybody who might be writing a PEP, so I'm cross-posting to Python-Dev. Probably no discussion is needed, but Reply-To is set to Python-Ideas. On Python-Ideas,

Re: [Python-Dev] A suggestion: Do proto-PEPs in Google Docs

2009-02-19 Thread Collin Winter
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull turnb...@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp wrote: On Python-Ideas, Guido van Rossum writes: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Greg Ewing wrote: Fifth draft of the PEP. Re-worded a few things slightly to hopefully make the proposal a bit clearer up