On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 06:11:18PM -0500, Richard Woodbury wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Nicholas Marriott > <[1]nicholas.marri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The NOTES file already says that code contributions should come to > mailing list by email. > > Yes, but it doesn't specify a preference for attached vs. inline. If there > is no preference, may it is fine the way it is.
Yeh it doesn't really matter that much. > * > > And it is already linked to under "Release > Notes" from the website. > > Ah... I didn't realize that link took you to that file, as I would have > expected to find release notes there, not "how to build". I think we should rename it to README and change the link to "README". Also I'd like to trim some of the other stuff on the page out a bit I think. > * > > So far we've had one person enquiring about this - and he still managed > to do it just fine. I don't think we need any extra documentation, > policies or whatever on this just yet. > > I chimed in on this thread because I ran into similar problems, but didn't > inquire originally and just took a stab at it. My first patch was sent as > a pull request to the mailing list, which is one interpretation of the > NOTES file. Given that it seems at first blush that the project uses git, > it seemed reasonable. A little bit of clarification could help newbies. > * Maybe just a slightly more prominent note in the README. If someone gets it wrong I don't have a problem working with them to get it right and it doesn't happen so often we are wasting a lot of time over it. Also I think tmux docs are not the place to tell people about using source control tools, it's a distraction for the people who just want to use tmux. > > The only step we might want to make is to rename NOTES to README. > > Agreed... and then perhaps make that accessible from the website via > something other than "Release Notes" so it is discoverable? > This may seem like yak shaving, but my intuition is that being clearer > about how to contribute helps encourage people to submit patches instead > of just bug reports. > Let me know if I can help in any way. > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:nicholas.marri...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
