On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:26:51PM -0700, Colin Campbell wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: >> I don't think we should ask new contributors to do this. I've added >> it to the CG as a responsibility for mentors to inform their >> contributors if they'll need a make clean or make doc-clean. > > It seemed to me, starry-eyed innocent that I am, that subscribing to > -devel and -user would be among the better ways to git the feel of > lilypond, so as long as new contribs are properly cautioned that a lot > of -devel will be opaque at first, it should be recommended as a > learning tool.
Yeah, but that adds 3-4 hours a week of reading. I'm not convinced it's worth it -- 3 more hours of looking at the current documentation (to learn texinfo) and writing patches (to get comments from the mentor) is going to be a *lot* more useful. Especially since it's easy to miss the 1 really important email saying "due to a makefile change, please run "make doc-clean" before the next time you do "make doc"". I'm not going to _discourage_ people from reading those lists, but I don't think it should be explicitly recommended. It's certainly not a good learning tool! The best way to learn is to dive in and start doing stuff. Speaking of which, I can't recall seeing any patches from you yet. ;) If you want some suggestions, I have any number of simple tasks that need doing. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
