docs.python.org is showing the docs for 2.6.5c2. As its most obvious bad consequence, docs.python.org/download.html doesn't offer any actual downloads, and there are no obvious (to newbies looking to download docs) links to working downloads.

Agreed.  I will have a more sane set of docs that are continually rebuilt vs. docs that are frozen in place for the next minor release that happens.

Uh oh. Definitely.

Oh, just now saw your second message.  At least it's back to semi-broken now :)

Nevermind the 2.7a4 comments, I think I'm just not all awake yet. The complaints I got were about it being 2.6.5c2, my browser showing me 2.7a4 may have been stupid autocompletion or something. (Still, please fix :)

Raising to "release blocker" status to get the changes that fix this and that are already in 2.6 approved by Barry.

The revisions are: r78907, r78914, r78923.

I'm attaching a patch with the collective diff.

In short, these changes mirror those done on the other active branches, which makes sure that all daily builds are done consistently.  Code is added only to the Doc Makefile and the "download documentation" template, both of which are not relevant to the released distribution.  Another rc is definitely not needed.

With these changes in place, we have:
- more consistent daily documentation builds (no longer coupled to the test runs by Neal)
- daily builds suspended for stable branches during the release process
- documentation downloads also for the development builds
- strict separation between released docs and daily updated docs

Thanks Georg!