On 2014-01-11 03:38:05 +0000 (+0000), Sam Harwell wrote: > I believe my comment may have been [slightly] misinterpreted.
Sorry about that! The wording seemed unnecessarily proscriptive. > I was simply saying that we shouldn't assume that contributors are > allowed to alter their global configuration. When deciding on a > policy for ignoring files, we should be careful to choose a policy > that does not prevent those users from participating just as > easily as users who are able to alter their global configuration. I agree that's reasonable, and we should avoid making it hard for anyone to commit whenever we can do so. > The implication of this is that users who sit down to read a guide > about getting started with making contributions to OpenStack > shouldn't find instructions in it like "Add the following lines to > ~/.gitignore...". True, but the documentation could say, "You should avoid accidentally committing autosave/backup and similar sorts of files left behind by your development tools, and here are several possible ways to do help ensure that..." -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
