Documentation Community Team Meeting (February 3, 2026)

Roll call

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

  • Hugo van Kemenade / @hugovk

  • Trey

  • Petr Viktorin / @encukou

  • Abby

  • Steve

  • Ryan / @ryan-duve

  • Ned / @nedbat

  • Stan / @StanFromIreland

Discussion

  • Why don’t we just add a manual? https://discuss.python.org/t/are-new-python-devs-forgetting-the-zen-of-python-there-should-be-one-and-preferably-only-one-obvious-way-to-do-it/105130/51

  • [Hugo] Savannah coded a demo to embed a REPL in the browser; Hugo integrated it with the docs: https://hugovk-cpython.readthedocs.io/en/pyrepl/tutorial/introduction.html

    • The required changes: https://github.com/python/cpython/compare/main…hugovk:cpython:pyrepl

    • Would this be safe to deploy? It can probably get to the user’s cookies, etc.

  • [Ryan] I recently found A Conceptual Overview of asyncio and found it very useful. Does the docs community want more articles like this?

  • [Stan] An Editorial Board issue (python/editorial-board#37) open for a while.

    • It also has a CPython issue, python/cpython#141811.

    • A page pointing to the new locations should be left, like this one in the Sphinx doc.

    • We use sphinxext-rediraffe in the devguide (https://github.com/python/devguide/blob/d5ca1b4aea6281aa66ce4b25b9889e6f89c0d2fe/conf.py#L108) for redirects.

    • Doc redirects are currently managed by nginx: https://github.com/python/psf-salt/blob/main/salt/docs/config/nginx.docs-redirects.conf

    • sphinx-reredirects could be used?

  • [Ned] The Editorial Board is inactive lately. If people have ideas about how to evolve it, let them know.

  • [Stan] If anyone has time, if they could please review this little guide I wrote for merging back in translations after docs move in the devguide: python/devguide#1700.