Documentation Community Team Meeting (April 2024)

  • Date: 2024-04-02

  • Time: 19:00 UTC

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

  • Discourse thread (for April)

  • Meeting reports (the latest one might be an unmerged PR)

  • Calendar event: (send your e-mail to Mariatta for an 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).

By participating in this meeting, you are agreeing to abide by and uphold the PSF Code of Conduct. Please take a second to read through it!

Roll call

(Name / @GitHubUsername [/ Discord, if different])

  • Petr Viktorin / @encukou

  • Hugo van Kemenade / hugovk

  • Daniele

  • Carol / @willingc

  • Ned / @nedbat

  • CAM / @CAM-Gerlach

  • Bradley

  • Ashley / @AWhetter

Reports and celebrations

  • [Carol] Docs summit at PyCon US https://us.pycon.org/2024/events/hatchery/docs-summit/

  • [Hugo] Modernised font on macOS: python/python-docs-theme#176

  • [Hugo] I wrote up how to activate tabs in Sphinx docs based on the reader’s OS: https://dev.to/hugovk/sphinx-docs-how-to-activate-tabs-for-your-os-pd3

  • [Hugo] Python 3.11 is now only accepting security fixes, so very few docs PRs need backporting: https://devguide.python.org/versions/

Discussion

Changelog splitting/reduction

No use cases other than “grepping it all” found so far.

[CAM] WarningMessage is undocumented

https://discuss.python.org/t/warningmessage-is-undocumented/48877

Please read the thread and chime in!

Parameter annotations: int | float or int or float?

https://discuss.python.org/t/how-should-we-mark-up-multiple-types-in-a-type-field/48196

Next meeting

The docs team generally meets on the first Tuesday of every month around 19:00-ish UTC.

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