Re: A new Jython DevGuide

Hi Jeff,

http://www.jython.org/devguide/ is produced from a fork of the CPython
devguide - though clearly it's really out of date. The repo is here:
https://hg.python.org/jython-docs/devguide/

Thanks for looking at this!

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Jeff Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I created a repository in the project space on GitHub that is a clone of the
> CPython devguide: https://github.com/jython/devguide
>
> The idea is to draw on the good work done recently (and still being done) by
> CPython to define process and conventions for working on GitHub, which is
> where, we've noted, we need to move. They've blazed a trail we'd be daft not
> to follow wherever we can, and they have tools. In any case, that which is
> not just process is also largely:
>
> Guidelines we refer to already;
> Advice we should probably follow; and
> Things mandatory on a PSF project.
>
> I'm hoping this will give us a much clearer reference for contributors, for
> less work than maintaining those sections of the Jython wiki. If you visit
> the CPython core developer part of the wiki it has been reduced to link into
> the devguide. I suppose ours would go on jython.org eventually?
>
> I'm not sure how this will work: e.g. do we create name_jy.rst parallels;
> can we edit mechanically; and is the Jython version on the master branch or
> another? I've already done some deleting and re-making branches. So I'll
> just try it and find out. At the moment I'm classifying chapters on a scale
> of "irredeemably C-specific" through to "just as true for Jython". There are
> not as many at the latter end as I'd hoped.
>
> The first outcome has been a minor contribution to the CPython version: to
> make it build on Windows. This puts me on the contributing end of the
> GitHub-based process as practised, which is a useful experience. I'm finding
> review is very ... active :)
>
> Jeff
>
> --
> Jeff Allen

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