On 02/17/2017 10:34 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/17/2017 03:28 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 17 February 2017 at 06:43, Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> But your point is taken, we should make the first (or a one-shot) >>> contribution as easy as possible. >> >> Yes; we could do with providing a "This page seems very long..." >> introduction section. The absolute bare minimum requirements >> for a submitter I think are: >> * Provide a Signed-off-by: line (this is a hard requirement >> because it's how you say "I'm legally OK to contribute this >> and am happy for it to go into QEMU") >> * send patch by email >> * read replies and act on them if you want your patch to go in >> >> The larger your contribution is, the more important the other >> requirements detailed on the page are; but personally I'm >> happy to manually fix up patches from a first-time submitter, >> and I think most other maintainers are too. > > I've updated the wiki to put in that nice bullet list, prior to the > table of contents. >
Is there a way we can make the quickstart exist in a pop-box? Also, any way to wrap the text on the rest of the introductory article? If you fullscreen this on a widescreen monitor you have to chase the letters to the far corners of the earth. Formatting the article more nicely might help its readability. It's also worth noting that just /reading the outline/ gives you enough advice, reading the details are actually not strictly necessary. --js
