On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca>wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:26:55PM -0500, Carl Peterson wrote: > > In my searching, I didn't find a page that really did this. Section > 1.2 of > > the current CG should theoretically do this (based on the title), but > it > > mostly just talks philosophically about git. > > Sounds good. I've never liked that "wall of text" in CG 1.2. How > about you rename the existing section to something like > "Introduction to open-source development" or "Introduction to > git", then add a new section that's the kind of overview you > suggested. > > NB: this type of change is minimally invasive, has a well-defined > scope, and can be done in an hour without requiring lots of > discussion on -devel. By contrast, based on historical evidence, > any discussion about reorganizing any document is likely to > involve at least 5 hours of emails and has over a 50% chance of > somebody's feelings getting hurt. > > Once I have the current website/documentation patch through and the one that I need to redo properly (which was the original one that got me into the dev side), I'll start taking a look at this. The timing also has the advantage of letting me work through a couple of reviews myself to understand this end of the process better before I look at documentation that touches the process. Why can I never remember the old adage about suggestions? Never make a suggestion you aren't willing to implement. :) Oh, well. As they say, it builds character. Carl
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