Re: [matplotlib-devel] online docs updating?

[Ryan M. <rm...@gm...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Ryan May <rm...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do the online docs automatically update themselves from changes in SVN?  I
>> thought there was a nightly cron.  I made some changes a few days ago (just a few
>> typos) and they haven't shown up online yet.  The changes were to
>> doc/users/shell.rst.  I'm assuming I should see the corresponding changes on
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/shell.html.
> 
> I had them in a cron and voluntarily disabled it.  I'm amenable to
> re-enabling it.  The problem is that as examples become available in
> svn, they automatically get pushed out to the gallery, but these may
> not run on the latest released version.  I thought perhaps the site
> should more closely track the latest released version, so the last few
> times I've pushed the docs out, I did so from the branch.  So if you
> want to see doc changes get pushed out sooner, you should patch the
> branch and merge to the trunk.  I am in general a big fan of
> encouraging people to use the svn snapshots as much as possible, and
> updating the gallery and site docs nightly helps this because the new
> features in the gallery entice them, but in the absence of nightly
> builds and snapshots I don't think this is too helpful.

Is there any way to merge changes done on the trunk onto the branch?  Or should I
just do it manually?

Ryan

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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma