Meeting Minutes: Feb 10, 2026

Meeting Minutes from Python Docs Editorial Board: Feb 10, 2026

Attendees

Notes

  • Discussed whether we should still act as the Editorial Board (EB)
  • EB members’ bandwidth:
    • Low bandwidth, personal travels, etc.
  • Suggestion: take it back to the Steering Council — do we have a need for it now?
    • The charter was to unblock what was blocked
    • Not many things are blocked these days
    • Example issue: on Discourse, a topic about whether we should underline links
    • Often we didn’t need to come in to state that we are in the EB
    • We could still exist but we are a light load
    • We could do quarterly meetings and chat on Discord as needed
    • If the point is to unblock — is the reason we haven’t been needed because there are no issues/conflicts?
  • From the Docs WG meeting:
    • Tooling (issue with links)
    • Links within our docs
    • Links from outside to our docs
    • If we reorg our docs (splitting a page into different pages), existing links from external sources to our docs are now broken
      • Petr is looking into fixing it
    • Links from our docs to external docs
  • The fact that we exist is a good thing.
    • Things seem smooth right now.
    • May want to look into the Free-threading group. They may have similar challenges with docs.
  • There may not be clarity about the expectation of what should be documented. Example: the memory model isn’t documented.
  • Should the time complexity be in the Python docs?
  • Conclusion:
    • Continue to exist
    • Scale back expectations
    • Continue the monthly cadence
    • Review if any of us want to take a step back and open up the space for others to come in