Documentation Community Team Meeting (September 2022)#

  • Date: 2022-09-12

  • Time: 21:00 UTC

  • This HackMD: https://hackmd.io/@encukou/pydocswg1

  • Discourse thread: https://discuss.python.org/t/18590

  • Calendar for future meetings: (send your e-mail to Mariatta for a calendar invitation)

  • How to participate:

    • Go to Google Meet and ask to be let in.

    • To edit notes, click the “pencil” or “split view” button on the hackMD document. You need to log in (e.g. with a GitHub account).

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Roll call#

  • Petr Viktorin / @encukou

  • Ezio Melotti / @ezio-melotti

  • Mariatta / @mariatta

  • Ned Batchelder / @nedbat

  • C.A.M. Gerlach / @CAM-Gerlach

Reports and celebrations#

  • We will be publishing the Workshop videos to YouTube soon. Stay tuned for announcement and emails.

  • Ee is back, so several things should get unblocked in the coming weeks, like the YouTube uploads or docs preview on Netlify

  • What’s New editing (CAM)

    • Major PEP sized items all added except for PEP 670

    • First set of copyedit PRs waiting on review/merge; please help!

    • Refs from summary to body content will be PRed very soon

    • Remaining items will be submitted as PRs soon(™)

    • See python/cpython#95913 and python/cpython#95914

  • “Past Action Item”: Try building automation to prevent link breakage using the .inv file

    • Moving whole pages could be handled by sphinxext-rediraffe like in the devguide

    • Moving fragments (the # part of URLs, like headings and reference entries) is not handled well

      • Intersphinx links work well for reference entries, but many external links don’t come form Sphinx

    • Fixing Sphinx roles might break Intersphinx, depending on how the URL is generated

  • Fixing bad Sphinx links

    • Big project, but could be good for newer contributors

    • Petr might have a GH Actions-based per-document check for PRs

    • Some links, e.g. in old What’s New, might need to stay broken. Silencing errors with ! doesn’t always work

  • Running linkcheck regularly (on devguide?)

‘Internal’ items#

For and about the Community or Working Group

  • Future meeting schedule

    • Best time seems to be 19:30 - 20:30 UTC, 1.5 hours earlier than current

    • Petr will ask on Discord if anyone objects

Next meeting#

The docs team meets on the first Monday of every month.

We have a recurring Google Calendar event for the meeting. Let Mariatta know your email address and she can invite you.