The idea of moving the devguide into the cpython repo, presumably under Doc/, was mentioned in a thread on python-dev[1] (related to issue 12652).  Does anyone have any objections?

I'm guessing that Brett made a separate repo (A) for simplicity and (B) because the mercurial cutover hadn't happened yet.

As a bonus, if the devguide were in the cpython repo then most of the objections to moving the test.support docs under the devguide go away.

[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-July/112656.html

I'm +0 about it.

See also #12409.

Actually if we move the devguide to Doc/ we will have to maintain a copy for each branch -- that's the real reason why it's in a separate repo.

So I think it's better to leave the devguide in a separate repo, and keep using it to document things that are not strictly dependent on specific Python releases.

I suppose it doesn't have to be in Doc/.

The possible options I see are:
  1) move it in Doc/ or some other dir -- but we will have
     to maintain it in all the branches;
  2) keep it only in the default branch -- but we will have
     to remove it from the old branch when we cut a release;
  3) make a separate branch for the devguide -- I'm not sure
     this makes even sense and/or if it solves anything;

Also if it's not in Doc/, where would the test.support doc go?

I'd say the main reason the dev guide is in a separate repo is the historical one (i.e. Brett was working on it as a separate repo prior to the hg migration and we never merged it).

However, the version independent nature of the material is the main argument against merging it into the Docs tree - it's a document about the development community around CPython, not a document about CPython itself.

Personally, I'm happy with the resolution in the python-dev thread - tagging the test.support docs to keep them out of indices and search results, while leaving the dev guide in a separate version independent repo.

That's fine.  The discussion had moved away from the devguide, so I figured it would be worth following up.  You guys have made some good points.