On Mon 26 Apr 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Florian Klaempfl het geskryf: > > > > No git mirror ;)? I think the docs are one of the fpc related > > repositories where using a dvcs might be useful. > > Apparently I am banned for life mentioning the "product that may not be > named" in FPC or Lazarus mailing lists. :-) > > As for moving to such a DVCS... why bother? I think I can count on two > hands the amount of commits per year. As for it being a "pilot" of a DVCS - > that would be a pointless exercise with such a slow moving repository.
I would love to contribute to the documentation -- I fancy myself good at writing, explaining, and making examples -- but as noted earlier in the thread, the barrier to entry is quite high. I'm far more comfortable using git than svn, and if there was such a repo it would help lower the barrier to entry for me at least. The lack of a simple tutorial on how to add to the documentation still remains a significant barrier, however. Graeme, I have to ask... on the one hand, you noted that having fragmented documentations over various locations is unhelpful; and on the other hand, I've heard you talk quite a bit about your DocView / INF project; I note in particular that you mentioned rewriting the FPC language reference in IPF. How is this not an example of the fragmentation you refer to? Don't get me wrong -- based on your explanations, I think DocView is a great idea, and I have been looking forward to trying it out, but I continue to wonder how well it will integrate with the present doc system and if it might lower the barrier to entry for contributing to the documentation. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
